An evocative semi-concept work based in the 1890s. [Jun 2022, p.83]

The result is a compact and highly combustible album that packs 10 songs into just 22 minutes. [Aug 2022, p.86]

Eschewing Young’s work recorded with Promise Of The Real – or indeed anything written this side of 1995 – Noise & Flowers’ nine crowd pleasers offer exactly what that brilliant title suggests.

The good-natured, twangsome results prefigure Costello's more angsty work with Clover on Nick Lowe-produced My Aim Is True. [Aug 2022, p.71]

A mostly exhilarating, agreeably disagreeable racket. [Aug 2022, p.71]

Ironically, without really trying, ZZ sound more soulful and vital here than they have for years. [Summer 2022, p.74]

Guitarist Dan Hyndman's Marmite vocal could be a stylisation too far, but there's plenty else t love on this assured third album. [Summer 2022, p.79]

Their interactions will turn understatement into seductiveness, as Paul Banks's voice and Daniel Kessler's guitars weave sorrow and hope through the shuffling Toni, the keening Fables, and Passenger, which feels like a sequel to their classic NYC. [Summer 2022, p.74]

The whole show is masterfully orchestrated. The first 25 minutes is all bangers. [Summer 2022, p.78]

Atmospheric, evocative, the psychedelic soul concept work you never knew you needed. [Summer 2022, p.79]

Anti-glory's an easy in, but you'll need to retune your ears to Horsegirl's particular frequency before this debut reveals its full brilliance. [Summer 2022, p.79]

He now sounds much calmer, serene even, on Shearwater's tenth, which floats where 2016's Jet Plane And Oxbow raged. This never means it's predictable. [Summer 2022, p.78]

Otherness is a grand return from a gang of proud outsiders.

The good news for casual listeners, though, is that the music works as a standalone experience. [Jun 2022, p.82]

An overall very classy and engaging collection from a singer perhaps largely unsung as a songwriter. [Jul 2022, p.81]

An elegant and accomplished treasure from experts in their field. [Jul 2022, p.80]

Light, airy, clear, strong, astonishing. [Jul 2022, p.83]

Channel[s] the nagging ingenuity of classic post-punk(pop) to sparkling effect. [Jul 2022, p.83]

A handful sprawl and meander a little because, hey, who would dare edit two revered avant-rock overlords? But otherwise quality levels are reliably high. ... This is the best Radiohead album in over a decade.

This second album brings the heft and enormity to make them serious contenders. [Jul 2022, p.78]

White Jesus Black Problems is a wide-ranging sprawl of sound. On a purely musical level, it's all over the place in the best possible sense. [Jul 2022, p.82]

For much of it they elect to look backwards, to formative times in their music story. [Jul 2022, p.82]

Suffering a little from the transition from live set to bootleg to official release. [Jul 2022, p.87]

It's a delight to hear the fully emergent Young so up and close with such a pantheon of wonder, and the sound is near-perfect. [Jul 2022, p.87]

The atmosphere is stunned, reverential. [Jul 2022, p.87]

Tasty, raunchy and mind-expanding stuff. [Jul 2022, p.82]

Perhaps more than any other Rammstein album, it feels like a collection of songs deliberately built to soundtrack a future series of spectacular live set-pieces. [Jul 2022, p.81]

On Fear Of The Dawn his foot spends plenty of time flat on the fuzz pedal. [Jul 2022, p.80]