If--as you should be--you're in love with Luna... you'll come over all swoonalicious to this subtly sparkling spin-off. [Dec 2003, p.130]

Spare, beautiful, outstanding. [Jul 2003, p.128]

A highly satisfying bridge between the log-cabin museum pieces of Revival and Hell Among The Yearlings and a more rockin', Basement Tapes-ish Americana. [Album of the Month, Aug 2003, p.96]

Gahan's lyrical moochings are inevitably less assured without his umbilical cord to [Martin] Gore, at times bordering on moon-in-June banality. [Jun 2003, p.108]

The tunes are stunning, her voice has never sounded better and she makes serious points few others would dare in a pop context. [Oct 2003, p.114]

Their brutal beats are married to fabulous pop songs. [May 2003, p.106]

A 21st-century alienated soul album that slips the Eels back into your heart. [Jul 2003, p.120]

Inpressive stuff, but like the Beastie Boys' tinnitus-inducing whines, Northern State's gonzoid yelps suffer from diminishing returns. [Jun 2003, p.110]

The greatest album ZTT never released. [Oct 2003, p.134]

If you really want to hear folk-blues played with rock'n'roll attitude then go back to Boomer's Story or Into The Purple Valley. [Oct 2003, p.111]

Aside from [Interpol]... the Yes groups sound just as narrow and constricted as their scuzzy East Village forebears. [Aug 2003, p.120]

Jaw-dropping. [Jul 2003, p.136]

Songwriting of the highest calibre. [Sep 2003, p.104]

At times this album seems interminable. [Aug 2003, p.116]

Repeated plays reveal little charm and less real humour. [Aug 2003, p.97]

It's a long time since we heard three-part harmonies as good as this from anyone. [Jun 2003, p.104]

From Every Sphere is the ultimate grower, which moves, in your mind, from quite nice to utterly compelling and addictive over a matter of days, or better, nights. [Album of the Month, March 2003, p.94]

An LP of spooked delicacy and wheezy, wayward charm. [Jun 2003, p.104]

Seems to be his regular melange of jackboot glam and electro-metal spiced up with those endearingly juvenile stabs at pretension and subversion. [Jun 2003, p.94]

All that is good in hip hop is here. [Jul 2003, p.111]

Something of a let-down. [May 2003, p.98]

Beth Ditto's remarkable gospel holler and fervent anti-sexist agenda deserves--no, demands--to be heard by a much bigger audience. [Aug 2003, p.106]

The best album McCulloch's had a hand in since 1984's Ocean Rain. [May 2003, p.96]

It's the freshest, most exciting and far-reaching left-field album in years. [Jun 2003, p.102]

Doesn't quite make it into the Thompson solo Top 10.... But it's good to have him back. [Mar 2003, p.102]

His twittering creations... use hip hop as their base but defy all attempts at categorisation and recall artists as diverse as Keith Jarrett, DoseOne and Smog. [Jun 2003, p.104]

There's nothing profound about Electric Version. But classic pop has seldom sounded so much fun. [Jun 2003, p.98]

An endlessly fascinating maze of sound.... This decade's Endtroducing..., possibly. [Jun 2003, p.98]