Challenging yet compelling. [Feb 2014, p.110]

Beautiful stuff. [Jun 2019, p.116]

There are flashes of greatness here. [Apr 2013, p.110]

His debut album is extraordinary. [Apr 2009, p.110]

[Noody's Fault But Mine is] A career-high in an album of highs. [Jul 2018, p.111]

The whole set is sumptuously produced and is the trio's most fully realised sonic adventure yet. [Summer 2020, p.98]

Campbell's gorgeous, heartbreaking and--well--maudlin songs deserve to be heard by an audience far wider than Camera Obscura's current cult- indie-pop devoteees. [Jun 2009, p.119]

[They sound] pissed off, over-amped, just the right side of sloppy, shorn of the brass grafted into recent outings--i.e. exactly like themselves. [May 2013, p.106]

Lorde's biggest achievement is retaining her emotional insight into herself and her generation despite her utterly transformed life. [Aug 2017, p.100]

They've bottled the lightning in an album of satirical wit, edgy intelligence and what fans crave most of all, raw power. [Jun 2013, p.105]

This is a fantastic record, one of the year's best, but perhaps one that suggests that Murphy has said what he needed to say. [Jun 2010, p.122]

Slick, wonderful album. [Aug 2018, p.114]

Morrissey, at 58, once again proves himself a pop provocateur of enduring efficacy. [Dec 2017, p.100]

They have made an amazing album about how amazing pop music can be. [Jul 2012, p.106]

Throughout, the sense of a man finding his own path is convincing. [Nov 2014, p.111]

Forget the usual, constricting alt-country tag, this is simply a wonderful record. [Mar 2007, p.116]

A record tremblingly alert to the darkness, it flickers like a candle in the gloom, a victory for the forces of good against all odds. [Dec 2013, p.107]

Fourth effort Combat Sports combines their early impish exuberance with English GGraffiti's more polished musicality. [May 2018, p.114]

[The album blurs] genres with the same ease it blurs expectations. [Oct 2013, p.109]

A major breakthrough beckons. [Mar 2014, p.120]

A strange, intoxicating and utterly brave record. [Apr 2015, p.86]

Quietly intoxicating, it's equal parts brain and beauty. [Jul 2018, p.111]

It contains some of the band's most beautiful, idyllic songs to date. [Apr 2014, p.117]

The overwrought Fall From Grace is the only bum note: otherwise Singles is a brilliant, bewitching album. [May 2014, p.110]

All 11 tracks on the album jump, shout and twang the heartstrings, albeit with a knowing wink. [Jun 2013, p.105]

The sentiment of the latter is clearly that the doubts and fuzziness of the past have gone and the future is now dazzlingly bright. On the strength of this sharply-focused, wholly impressive record, that much is certainly true for Guillemots. [May 2011, p.113]

It's her devastating voice and ear for the smallest details that ultimately makes all the difference. [Jul 2013, p.104]

A career-best mind-melter. [Sep 2018, p.117]