Lean and modest throughout, Don't Let The Kids Win reverberates with a sense of truth that only the truly exceptional can convey. [Nov 2016, p.110]

Like Old Crown's best stuff, it evokes a time our of mind. [Sep 2014, p.112]

Variously heartrending and uplifting, Lateness OF Dancers is enriching stuff. [Oct 2014, p.110]

Merrie Land works best when these sounds and visions come together in an impressionistic haze. [Dec 2018, p.109]

Seeking Thrills is an artfully constructed yet instantly enjoyable tribute to dancefloor deliverance in all its forms. [Feb 2020, p.117]

Spoon are a band who are impossible to second-guess, and one deserving of much more attention. [May 2017, p.101]

The weaponised theatricality never overshadows a set of songs that are as entertaining as they are grandly ambitious. [Apr 2019, p.116]

Throughout Grace is brave and brutally honest. [Mar 2014, p.107]

It's one of their finest. [May 2013, p.98]

What results is almost a straight collection of intimate folk and pop. Like constant rainfall, though, his continued use of audio interference is the sonic frame that gives the songs their otherworldly depth and scope. [Aug 2017, p.103]

By far their most effective release.

It's the tender slow rollers that really clinch this supreme collection. [#180, p.97]

After a decade as pop's court jesters, Kaiser Chiefs have finally found their true voice. [May 2014, p.106]

Rarely longer than three minutes, Zomby tracks don't make much sense in isolation but the cumulative effect over 80 minutes is moving in ways that are hard to explain. [Jul 2013, p.113]

Kingdoms In Colour maintains its atmosphere mainly through its use of hypnotic rhythms and light, primary colour trippiness. It could well be the perfect end-of-summer soundtrack. [Oct 2018, p.112]

More than the sum of their parts, if there's a collaborative sweet spot, this record hits it. [Oct 2016, p.111]

Classic thrash gets proper remastering for 25th birthday. [Sept. 2011, p. 123]

His best uptempo record since Odelay. [Nov 2017, p.109]

His world of heartbreak, damage and survival attains an out-of-time quality that admirers of superior barroom soundtracks will warm to. [Sep 2014, p.113]

Across these songs, Bridgers manages an unusual marriage of delicacy and lo-fi wit, and it's a union that has led her to quietly make one of the albums of the year. [Dec 2017, p.102]

Impressively, all this is delivered with sufficient panache to make it sound fresh and exciting, rather than merely eager to please. [Jun 2004, p.105]

Ultimately Sola's muse remains rooted in the nocturnal. [Jan 2019, p.113]

Tracey Thorn dispatches these carefully chosen covers and four new tracks with realism and a lightness of touch. [Nov 2012, p.106]

Wincing The Night Away is super-smart pop music the way they (Brits, mainly) used to make it 20 years ago. [Feb 2007, p.100]

Moving, in every way. [Apr 2020, p.113]

A staggering, intoxicating record. [Dec 2013, p.116]

At it's best, it's impeccable. [Jan 2013, p.107]

Despite its occasional missteps, this is a highly impressive debut. [May 2019, p.108]