This colourful fruit ain't rotting yet. [May 2013, p.90]

It's intimate but also voyeuristic. [Oct 2021, p.86]

The group demonstrate their vocal prowess on Hamba, a relentless dance groove featuring plaintive a cappella harmonies. [Dec 2022, p.89]

Musically and vocally, this is Franti's most confident and varied work to date. [Jul 2003, p.106]

Always a unique voice, Phillipps is as refreshingly conciliatory as he is arrow straight. It may be nothing particularly new, but it's the way he tells 'em. [Oct 2018, p.90]

Live albums often give you the gist of the jam, inviting you to imagine studio details; The War On Drugs invert that expectation, letting the rest sparkle beneath stage lights. [Jan 2021, p.86]

This album is a beauty. [Nov 2018, p.93]

[Tony] Rice would have loved it. [Feb 2022, p.86]

If it has a fault, it is that its relentlessly innovative music can overshadow often superlative lyrics. [Apr 2005, p.102]

Where Kloot's self-titled second had moments of glowing, maximalist production, here the sound is pared back. [May 2005, p.106]

The album's 12 intimate essays, described as "elegies as much as songs," feel like ghostly, poignant testaments to our times. [Mar 2022, p.86]

Their best by a country mile. [Oct 2005, p.118]

Like all the best dreams. [Oct 2011, p.100]

[An] extraordinary beautiful debut. [Dec 2015, p.87]

Snares feels more like No Age's greatest hits than their fifth album. [Feb 2018, p.95]

These 12 tunes pack an almighty sonic punch. [Apr 2007, p.96]

From the vogueish cat on their album cover to the deliberate non-production, Crazy For You comes wrapped in a hipster cloak, but Cosentino is no slacker. [Sep 2010, p.98]

[This album] finds a glorious similitude between the two disciplines. [Jul 2010, p.92]

Tastefully gauzy production elevates Indian-based KK's indie-psych pop second. [Mar 2020, p.96]

They still pack a metallic, tight-as-you-like punch that's more than ready for 10 rounds with Yow's gnarled voice. [Oct 2007, p.98]

Wild abandon never sounded so inviting. [Aug. 2011, p. 104]

Intense. But the much tougher stuff here is emotional. [Sep 2022, p.86]

Blacc's wise-beyond-his-years tenor, sounding eerily alike a young Bill Withers, perfectly fits I Need A Dollar's dignified mourn. Elsewhere, he skillfully evades mawkishness or trite sentiment on the moving Momma Hold My Hand. [Sep 2010, p.106]

There's peace and a wild purity to it. [May 2017, p.92]

He and Lucille are still as one and the guitar licks come exquisite and often. [Nov 2008, p.119]

Serene, mostly, where free improv is usually abrasive. [Jul 2020, p.88]

A fitting, touching elegy for a bewitching talent. [May 2019, p.87]

Urgent, retro-futurist and profoundly absorbing. [Jul 2020, p.84]