Bringing some rock into swing is clearly Setzer's forte, and he blurs the lines between swing, rockabilly, and surf with ease.

He has created a record that fully embraces the inclinations we all sometimes have to find a tune with strong enough melody to hum through the day.

Fans of the The Verve, or just plain fans of "Bittersweet Symphony," may feel a little let down as the record as a whole, though still steeped in a love of strings and complex arrangement, does not carry the same sonic weight of previous work.

A small, intimate record that not only reminds us of Hatfield's sweet-n-wry junior high voice, but also her mature lyric writing.

Smith makes a valiant effort to match the austere beauty of XO... Still, he falls short on the most important element of his songs, the vocal melodies.

In twelve brutally honest and dark tracks, Reed revisits the best elements of his early work...

The album lacks nothing in substance, but in edge it could use a jolt.

A haunting through line of notes that impact wonderfully in stirring the darker recesses of the mind.

Orbit tackles the classics with a reverence that occasionally calls to mind the original work of Vangelis with it's sparse and delicate blips that are more refined than you would expect even from the most devout music historian.

Here the trio trade in the constant reliance on the fuzzed out guitars that led the charge of their steady rise through obscurity for the more subdued moments that have occasionally reared up in past projects.

Even as they approach epic length, the songs remain beautiful, dramatic, and above all else simple.

The album is in some ways visionary, but it many ways it is just another Morphine album.