This is tough, honest, uncompromising beauty and the next great voice in music. [Apr 2005, p.86]

Delivers a top-grade high. [Jun 2006, p.104]

Heavy though it is, the songwriting remains remarkably light and agile. [Mar 2024, p.88]

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You is both an album of admirable ambition and a mantra worth repeating until its mysteries are revealed. [Mar 2022, p.81]

KoKoKo! wield improvised technology with the deftness of touch to create the kind of pop music you'd expect to hear in the best post-punk disco in heaven. [Sep 2019, p.94]

[An] Extraordinary album. [Apr 2022, p.92]

Arular's irresistible blend of crafty refugee chic and subversive digital skipping rhymes will do very nicely for the moment. [Jun 2005, p.108]

If you need reminding, it demonstrates what a good singer she is. [Dec 2018, p.90]

This panoramic attempt to make sense of life's one certainty beyond taxes flutters far above the digital static of 2008's breakthrough Los Angeles into twisted, ethereal jazz territory. [Nov 2014, p.89]

Its sure-footed '60 psych, garage and country is potently rendered. [Aug 2022, p.89]

Beautiful and surprising album. [Jul 2019, p.88]

Believe it or not, there's room in the desert for yet another serious contender. [May 2019, p.91]

Multifaceted and consistently brilliant. [Jun 2023, p.84]

Isolation doesn't get more splendid than this. [June 2008, p.100]

There's a sense in almost all the songs of open roads, either beckoning or closed in, or both. [May 2015, p.99]

Brilliantly executed with Shirley Bassey-like surety in an arresting, always distinctive, lyrical voice. [Mar 2024, p.89]

It's a record of fierce seriousness, a demand for engagement as inescapable and immediate as somebody shaking you by the shoulders. [Aug 2023, p.82]

A string quartet, reverby backing vocals, and Kraut keys crowd the songs like weeds strangling a once hearty plant. [May 2001, p.104]

Piercing, heated, Fever Ray is taking no prisoners. [Mar 2018, p.97]

Everything Harmony us certainly a darker chapter in the Twigs' story, but their songwriting has become more nuanced. [Jun 2023, p.90]

Lahai is less introspective and far from lonely, its persuasive positivity carried by a contained riot of euphoric synths, swelling violins, Chic guitars and skittering percussion. [Dec 2023, p.90]

What did we get for our 20-year wait? Something substantive, something deeply considered. [Jan 2024, p.87]

This is not a record that wants or needs to be solved, but the clues and traces it leaves behind are so compelling it's difficult to let it alone. [Oct 2015, p.86]

The sense of wonder in Fleet Foxes' songs is matched only by the discipline and talent that created this adventurous, evocative record. One which is already shaping up as an album of the year. [July 2008, p.98]

It signals the charged completion of a circuit, the final bridging of a gap between conductors. [Aug 2012, p.91]

Baroness's second full-length somehow tops their powerhouse debut for riffs, songwriting and cohesiveness. [Feb 2010, p. 101]

With Callahan's romantic certainty comes rare writerly confidence: several tunes bask in this miraculous feeling. ... Outright classic. [Nov 2022, p.86]

Immediately and huantingly familiar, it circumvents pastiche courtesy of a mischievous cut'n'paste aesthetic. [Feb 2008, p.108]