The overall effect is not dissimilar to Sugababes, only with added adult content. [Aug 2006, p.111]

Oozing with dark passion, Nux Vomica is very Nick Cave. [Oct 2006, p.127]

A dark, challenging album. [Feb 2013, p.107]

Their infectious electro-funk certainly has a new hedonistic swagger. [Feb 2012, p.104]

Fredo does little to soften the edges of his rough-cut persona for this solo debut album. [Mar 2019, p.115]

Story Of The Year manage to stand out from the melodic post-hardcore morass due to the sheer stength of their anthems, That said, there's little new on this fourth album. [Apr 2010, p.106]

Full marks, then, for ambitions but there's still a powerful sense here of a man trying way too hard. [Aug 2018, p.108]

Not always easy to decode, but worth the effort. [Jun 2014, p.103]

Another year, another Jah Wobble album knocked out with a slew of collaborators and little interest in much, you suspect, beyond the immediate entertainment of its participants. [Sep 2016, p.114]

As ghostly grey as an autumn fog, it's definitely a record for when the rain's hammering on the windowpanes at home. [Sep 2016, p.102]

The third album since the band's 2007's reunion is low on overt politics, but high on autumnal jazz, Bacharach-ian swing, easy-going funk and relaxed charm. [Jun 2013, p.93]

Both sides [metal and pop] work well individually, but bolted together it sounds confused. [Sep 2013, p.100]

Deacon's score is all subtle mood shifts and intriguing instrumentation. [Nov 2017, p.108]

It's the heart of the matter, and the song that sets the bar. [Oct 2011, p.122]

It won't give the Foo Fighters sleepless nights, but it's fun while it lasts. [Jan 2020, p.109]

There was always more going on inside that pretty head than met the eye. On his first release since disbanding My Chemical Romance, you may struggle to hear what that is. [Nov 2014, p.120]

Emotions are high, though their impact could be heightened if the band's post-hardcore sounds was less generic. [Nov 2012, p.103]

Curious rather than essential. [Feb 2018, p.112]

Rather than working as a listening experience, Myth Takes feels more like a dry run for one of !!!'s compulsive live shows. [Apr 2007, p.116]

Enjoyable but not exactly exciting. [Mar 2018, p.108]

DeVotchKa's preference for songs that don't necessarily result in feverish fopsweat actually serve to highlight much mongrel charm. [Apr 2008, p.107]

Over six albums in nearly 20 years, Connecticut's Hatebreed have yet to deliver a record that sounds different from the last. [Feb 2013, p.107]

Hamilton's languid, Hope Sandoval-style cooing occasionally struggles to keep pace.... But when they're aiming true, Widowspeak strike gold. [Mar 2013, p.111]

The gloomy beats prove best suited to Pusha's own sinister drawl. [Feb 2012, p.104]

Arctic Monkeys and Franz Ferdinand's label is an unlikely home for these militant lesbian rappers who screech sex-filled rhymes over tough, minimal beats, although thheir punky energy should appeal to Messrs Turner and Kapranos. [Oct 2008, p.152]

Luna is pleasing rather than groundbreaking. [Oct 2008, p.139]

While they chug along merrily, they lack the great songs that would distinguish them from the herd. [April 2012, p.98]

His first LP of originals since the '80s is thrillingly belligerent, bassist Norman Watt-Roy and drummer Dylan Howe supplying a muscular foundation to Johnson's machete guitar, a combination more than compensating for the star's lack of vocal prowess. [Summer 2018, p.110]