'I Call Out Your name won't exactly smash the state, but it's a perfect little pop song. So are opening track, 'When I Died' and 'Now We Can See', where the band's return to gleefully subversive social commentary can't undermine their most infectious pop hook. [May 2009, p.110]

Thanks to the expert production of Brendan O'Brien, the record sounds goddamn phenomenal. [Aug 2012, p.83]

With Cold House, Hood provide evidence that their time in the sun is long overdue. [Dec 2001, p.84]

The album doesn't have the reunion hype that helped make American Music Club's "Love Songs For Patriots" such an event. What it does have is songwriting. [Mar 2008, p.140]

There's a fine line between vintage rock revision and progressive insight--Hammond Jr. has mastered the balance. [Aug 2008, p.170]

Here And Nowhere Else is Cloud Nothings' best effort yet--and that's saying something. [May 2014, p.90]

Falling In Reverse have given fans the rare gift of an artist stepping back to the sound they originally fell in love with. [Apr 2015, p.89]

Mazzy Star may not have evolved much over the past 17 years, but Season Of Your Day proves they never, ever need to. [Oct 2013, p.88]

All that really matters is that the White Album’s songs are great, and not just great for the 2016 version of Weezer. They stack up beside the band’s best work of the past 15 years.

They've returned fully charged on the triumphant No Cities To Love. [Feb 2015, p.94]

On Bromst, Deacon's confidence shines through as he effortlessly combines extremes. [Apr 2009, p.142]

MacNeil delivers a riveting, throat-destroying performance that owns every moment [Oct 2012, p.88]

It's less mopey than Bright Eyes, less pompous than Sufjan Stevens and better than almost everything else. [Feb 2009, p.103]

The tracks on Steal come off as much more assured and comfortable than those on Toxicity. [Jan 2003, p.81]

Ambitious but understated, intelligent but immediate, Pedestrian Verse is simultaneously heartbreaking and life affirming--and anything but pedestrian. [Mar 2013, p.90]

Attention Citizens of Warped: Life's Not Out To Get You is the album you've been craving. [Sep 2015, p.96]

Their best album to date. [Apr 2002, p.70]

Transcending genre, Interiors is Quicksand in 2017, a time where no one is quite sure if we’ve moved backward.

Well paced and thoroughly engaging, the Braxton-less Battles have accomplished the seemingly impossible with Gloss Drop: They've actually gotten better. [Jul 2011, p.107]

Eternity could easily be a musical score as much as it is a step forward for abrasive punk. [Apr 2017, p.80]

Throughout, Campbell touches on one of his greatest lyrical strengths--his attention to detail--to bring scenes to life, while also being acutely aware of the underlying emotion and backstory just beyond the setting. It’s devastatingly effective.

New Again leaps forward as the best album of Taking Back Sunday's career to date.

Godspeed On The Devil's Thunder sees the Brits at thie operatic best and completely unafraid to fill their songs with orchestral keyboards. [Dec 208, p.142]

Honestly, 34 years deep, this is one of the band's best albums. [Feb 2015, p.92]

Finally, the coolest guy in rock makes a record worthy of his reputation. [May 2011, p.92]

While still drenched in anguish, regret and torrential riffs, Parting The sea gives Bolm's prose-dense vignettes and feral confessions the full punch and epic scope they deserve. [Jul 2011, p.112]

Re-examining a broken heart is tough business, but Turner and producer Butch Walker do the work on this dozen-song effort. [Sep 2015, p.97]

Their music is tighter, sharper and aiming for the jugular in its first shot. In the simplest terms, the band crafted a record that fills the bigger venues they are sure to be playing now and in the future.