This is classic Cure. Three listens and you'll love it.

So sweet is the harmonic construction that awareness of the ecclesiastical niceties of such as The Transfiguration... is incidental to falling under the divine spell. [May 2004, p.105]

The genius of past Outkast isn't diluted or diminished across these disks, rather it's doubled, expanded and explored. [Sep 2003, p.99]

Could well be her finest yet. [Oct 2001, p.128]

It is Newsom's voice that provides the stunning balm to bind this strange beauty together. [Dec 2006, p.118]

Melds way-out weird with a pop welcome that sounds like no one else around right now. [May 2004, p.105]

This is a raging leviathan of a set, each track a powerful, swaggering anthem. [May 2002, p.97]

If anything, surpasses its illustrious predecessor. [Sep 2001, p.98]

There's a narcotic quality to these drifting ballads, one that perfectly suits these shell shocked, terrorised times. As the world gears up for the Apocalypse, I shall take comfort in Bavarian Fruit Bread -- a very haunting, beautiful record. [Nov 2001]

A drizzly doomsday masterpiece. [Nov 2004, p.108]

[A] sensual, endlessly inventive record. [Aug 2003, p.106]

Arguably the band's most magical record to date. [Nov 2003, p.123]

An extraordinary album. [Aug 2002, p.95]

Beautifully recorded, this is intimate seduction for voice, elegant finger-picked guitar and not much else. [May 2004, p.93]

A masterpiece of controlled electronic violence. [Nov 2004, p.102]

There's no easy niche in which you can place this new statement: like Dylan's Time Out Of Mind, it ventures into a doomy, mythological area, where the directions are muddied and the heartbreak is total. [Jul 2001, p.98]

2006's album of the year may have arrived early. [Mar 2006, p.104]

This is unmistakeably the Arctics, only stronger, harder, sharper, faster.... An extraordinary and fulfilling sequel to their debut. [May 2007, p.100]

As complex, compelling, and at times unsettling a record as Cale has unleashed since 1982's Music For A New Society. [Oct 2003, p.105]

A nearly flawless set of left-field folk. [Jun 2004, p.106]

Those who want their Emmylou full of sweet, sad longing will play a quarter of this album to death.... Elsewhere, there's righteous anger and an assertiveness and sexuality to the love songs. [Nov 2003, p.128]

A stoner's paradise from start to finish. Most pleasurable.

The playing is terrific throughout... [Jan 2001, p.98]

Kissin Time is full with Faithfull's own history: disaster next to glory, next to the overriding feeling that, come what may, she will slide through it all by dint of charisma, wit and, indeed, charm. [Album Of The Month, March 2002, p.98]

A beautiful, fragile, record that demands your full attention, then pays back dividends.

If this is to be Cash's last album, then what a magnificent way he has chosen to say goodbye. [Album of the Month, Dec 2002, p.100]

Hood have crafted a singular meeting of modern electronics, carefully layered arrangements and more conventional rock melancholia. [Dec 2001, p.96]

As one MOJO staffer commented, "This sounds like I'm trapped inside a damaged mechanical brain." Yes, it's that good. [May 2001, p.116]