It's enough to get a guy pining for his next ex-to-be. [#24, p.102]

There's something about this album... that takes listeners by the hand, smacks them into reality and reminds them they're still alive. [#24, p.90]

Almost everything about this album is fragile and beautiful. [#24, p.94]

Apples' Robert Schneider has continued to hack away at the ins-and-outs of the most perfect psychedelic pop formations ever, and New Magnetic Wonder offers proof.

Lerche croons and swoons between styles like a prophet of postmodern pomp.

To say that this disc is merely great "psych-folk from Sweden" would be to ignore its more, um, intimate qualities.

This witchcraft is far better in theory than it ever will be in practice. [#24, p.96]

A seeping, heaving summer album through and through.

Throughout, group leader Toby Martin accelerates his ascent to bedroom bard of the medicated generation, filling Twilight with Zach Braffian tales of the perils that exist in relationships with girls (“Sorry”) and pills (“On A String”).

Hella's old guard are likely to be wicked pissed.

This is a sprawling album of warmth, stuttering electronics and rural psychedelia. [#24, p.96]

If last year's sublime Sunlandic Twins was Kevin Barnes' ode to "Oslo in the Summertime," Hissing Fauna recalls his Winter of Discontent.

Ranging from the epic to the understated, Menomena manages to be innovative and accessible.

Here, on their sophomore LP, these pen pals have dotted their Is and crossed their Ts flowing in and out of tracks that appropriately run the line of both personal and distant.

You'd be right to uncover this one.

An impeccably selected hodgepodge.

A thin and innocuous stretch of yawners. [#22, p.97]

Call it diversity; call it inconsistency; whatever. Moving in some direction is half the battle. [#22, p.93]

An instant classic for lovers of sentimental quality. [#22, p.96]

Stop bitching about never hearing anything new or different and pick this up. [#22, p.94]

Irresistible. [#22, p.93]

The Information is a truer return to the Odelay mentality--and surprisingly, the sound as well. [#22, p.92]

Flowers would do better to leave the theatrics back at Caesar's Palace. [#22, p.96]

Fun the way a dance floor should be. [#22, p.102]

When the band shines, it reaches stunning heights. [#22, p.102]

A patient, assured album where nearly every sound feels appropriate. [#22, p.93]

The greatest 1996 era melodic rock since... 1996. [#22, p.98]

A glorious, towering achievement. [#22, p.98]