On the evidence of this quite brilliant record, brighter days lie ahead for one young American at least. [Dec 2013, p.103]

This jubilant, ritzy resurrection offers a Poundland paradise. [Mar 2019, p.95]

As if his glorious slipping of the blues genre's straitjacket wasn't brave enough, Son Little's latest album is also an excavation of some pretty heavy-duty personal trauma. ... Consider our minds expanded. [Oct 2022, p.71]

This 1986 Morrissey-Marr career peak proves enduringly rich and rewarding in its punchy, remastered, expanded form.

It's the zippiest Foos album to date. ... As a modern rock melting pot, Medicine certainly sounds like a spirit rediscovered. [Mar 2021, p.84]

A murky modern masterpiece. [Oct 2019, p.87]

In Another World is a remarkable album and another marvellous continuation: power and pop. [May 2021, p.88]

The instrumental How To Disappear Into Strings adds a stentorian dimension to How To Disappear Completely, while Fog ascends to a whole new level of mystery in its Again Again version. Radiohead’s loving tending of their back catalogue wins out again.

A highly more-ish record with real soul and class. [Mar 2015, p.88]

Their creative studio peak might have (just) been behind them, but for a taste of the Stones at their down-and-dirtiest, Goats Head Soup will always be the dish of the day.

[Beautiful People (Stay High) is] a tearaway slice of white-boy soul, so immediate that you'll join the cast-of-thousands vocal by the second chorus. the rest of Ohio Players is almost as good. [May 2024, p.75]

This album is a heart-breaking but jubilant exploration of joy, honesty, fragility and expression as our most powerful means of human resistance. [Sep 2018, p.88]

Blue & Lonesome captures the Rolling Stones--The Greatest Urban Blues Band In The World--in their element, doing what they do best. You’ll only wish they did it more.

90 minutes of sensitive, surreal lyrics and wailing wig-outs which make J Mascis sound like Julian Bream. ... You'll enjoy it. [Feb 2019, p.90]

Arguably the most exuberant guitar pop alum of 2020. [Mar 2021, p.87]

His masterful combination of feel and technique reaches frequent peaks, with rousing, Jimi Hendrix-inspired rocker Death Of Me and slow burner I Found Her showcasing his fluid, emotive playing at its best.

LTB’s woes have been rewarded with something remarkable: their best record yet.

Tracks like Horns Below Her Halo and the title one are some of the best in their class. [Summer 2023, p.77]

Songs is a doozy. [Sep 2014, p.93]

The singer and guitarist's seventh album is a sparkling gem in its own right. [Jan 2024, p.78]

The allure and immediacy of the songs is remarkable, the stuff that translates into an instant classic. [Sep 2014, p.94]

It's a pleasure just to amble alongside him, being blissfully glazed in honey by that extraordinary voice. [May 2020, p.81]

This is an album on which Muse master the wider range of future rock and pop sonics they've been toying with for the past decade and refine and define their current sound as neatly as Black Holes & Revelations did for their 2000s period. [Sep 2022, p.74]

This is a beautiful record, a reflection on an extraordinary 50-year career that's more a memory of life than a memento mori. [Mar 2019, p.89]

Psychic Warfare remains in the same succinct and bullish territory that made Earth Rocker such a straightforward joy.

It never lags. [Sep 2014, p.95]

With a disc including live outtakes and priceless B-sides, this is an essential collection.

If Bowie gave Hunter the confidence to steer Mott through the hits that started with Honaloochie Boogie and opened up his solo career, the trials and tribulations of the subsequent 42 years have put him in a solid position to dish out sage advice and put cockier elements in their place, which he does on the opening That’s When The Trouble Starts and closing Long Time.