Wreckless Abandon is great fun, infused with the characteristic boogie and swagger of Campbell's guitar, and heavily in hock to his obvious formative influences. [Apr 2020, p.27]

Beguiling if familiar thanks to the many echoes of Jessie Ware and Goldfrapp at their most forlorn. [Jan 2021, p.23]

The sparer treatments on How Beauty Holds the Hand of Sorrow make for something more enthralling, partially because of how much the largely piano-and-vocal arrangements evoke the crystalline beauty of Brun's early albums. [Jan 2021, p.23]

Surviving on the present, these songs infer, may be hard. To process this, he uses expansive, hypnotic arrangements: winding guitars, jazzy undertones, sturdy melodies sent into the ether. [Jan 2021, p.23]

Metal-tinged stadium rockers like "The Machine," "Stand And Fight" and the Sabbathy "The Alchemist" still offer their strongest moments. [Dec 2020, p.27]

If 2020 confirms anything, it's the breadth of what Magik Markers can do, within what might read like constraints. [Nov 2020, p.36]

When they succeed, it's on more traditional Pumpkins territory. ... Otherwise, Cyr sounds like an underwhelming misadventure. [Jan 2021, p.32]

It's a big, satisfying holistic record modelled with great finesse, mixing dread with Technicolor synth dazzlement and operating on a newly ambitious scale. [Dec 2020, p.25]

What Archives II does, then, is not just celebrate a wealth of great music - but those who helped make it. [Jan 2021, p.34]

Authoritatively cements the status of Granduciel's Philadelphia-based sextet as the best American rock band to emerge in the 2010s. [Jan 2021, p.33]

The performance of a lifetime. [Dec 2020, p.27]

A brash and confident rebirth. [Dec 2020, p.31]

Dreamy found-sound interludes weave the whole thing together, demanding headphones and space. [Jan 2021, p.23]

Its songs run more freely and push at greater abstraction, without losing melodic strength. [Jan 2021, p.27]

A more concise affair [than II], with only one of its six tracks over eight minutes. It's also more laid-back. [Jan 2021, p.28]

There’s no brave new frontier here – and perhaps in these strange times many of us don’t really want to be challenged. Rather, these simple pleasures, full of reassurance and a satisfying indulgence, will keep us warm while we adjust to the ‘new normal’ – whatever that may eventually turn out to be.

They're breaking no new personal ground, then but. ... Their enthusiasm and wayward energy carry them. [Jan 2021, p.27]

This is the sound of celebration of life, and of music escaping confinement and coming to be freed. [Dec 2020, p.20]

A gorgeous melding of taut psychedelics, hazy Americana and a drop of the dreamier fringes of Britpop. [Dec 2020, p.36]

Attempts several tasks at once - and pretty much delivers on all of them. [Jan 2021, p.47]

Prophet's approach is tailored to suit, exploring modern and antique mythology through the vernacular of folk music. Despite the stylistic departure, The Land That Time Forgot is busy enough to accommodate trace elements of the roots-rock that made his reputation. [Jul 2020, p.28]

Play loud, and be transported. [Jan 2021, p.32]

It's a deeply personal and poignant exploration of loss. [Jan 2021, p.27]

The band's most orchestral album yet. [Jan 2021, p.25]

The likes of "Gadigal Land" and "First Nation" evoke an earlier Oils, circa the seething post-punk of "Head Injuries" - though the show is stolen by Alice Skye, who takes lead on the poised protest ballad "Terror Australia." [Jan 2021, p.28]

They sound positively in-your-face rather than isolated on garagey, throbbing stomps. [Jan 2021, p.27]

It's a nuanced handling of some of her recent song obsessions. [Jan 2021, p.27]

As ever, it's as unpredictable as it is beguiling. [Jan 2021, p.31]