Dalle has her bite back. [Jul 2014, p.104]

He's enjoying his music far too much to stop now. And so, for the matter, are we. [Oct 2018, p.106]

Excitingly, War's chaotic punk and the frantic Guilty All The Same are as raw as they've ever been, but The Hunting Party is the sound of Linkin Park coming in from the cold. [Aug 2014, p.109]

Palms is a heavy, explorative listen. [Aug 2013, p.96]

Lovers isn't instant, but perseverance brings great rewards. [Oct 2017, p.100]

With almost every line a zinger, Wainwright's cocktail of satire and over-sharing remains potent. [Sep 2014, p.117]

For all the familiar qualities, the songs here never fall into pastiche or predictability. [Nov 2015, p.112]

It's well worth the wait. ... Boone's smoky vocals fit the desperation of Vlautin's mini-dramas perfectly, the band's country-soul swing evocatively solid. [Feb 2019, p.111]

Everything here is a fantastic hybrid, M.I.A. and her platoon of producers thieving fashionable street sounds from Baltimore hip hop to Brazil's baile funk. [Sep 2007, p.89]

There are moments in early listens of the album when the attention begins to meander, only to be drawn back in by a lyrical quirk, or a sudden musical volte face, so that by the sixth roll about the turntable this seems a wholly differently textured record to when you began. [Mar 2019, p.121]

It's a mess, but a glorious one. [Apr 2008, p.107]

Ultimately you're listening to an increasingly original singer and songwriter. [Oct 2013, p.98]

Stretching his creative wings has worked for Toledo; there's a sense of him pushing outward as well as forward, even as he questions the point of it all. [Jul 2020, p.106]

It's less of an album. more of a grand seduction: sultry, beguiling and entirely irresistible. [Apr 2015, p.98]

Singularity is rich enough to let your mind wander through it. [Jun 2018, p.104]

This confident follow-up is rawer, looser and altogether more agressive. [Apr 2009, p.97]

Chaotic, visionary and righteously pissed off, Wide Awake! feels like the perfect rock record for the times. [Jul 2018, p.113]

Complete with harmonies from Julia Holter, it's an absolute peach. [Apr 2014, p.116]

An incredible album. [Sep 2020, p.111]

East Of Eden is bold and strange, fusing alien-sounding instrumetals woth wide-eyed Scandinavian pop to dizzying effect. [Oct 2009, p.117]

Teeth offers more upbeat songs about downwardly mobile characters, complete with Springsteen-scale musical drama and clever lyrics about dive bars. [May 2014, p.111]

It's possessed and peaceful at once, absorbing and wholly gorgeous. [Jun 2013, p.108]

It's a richly textured record. [Jul 2015, p.109]

The swampy exotica that was draped around both 1995's To Bring You My Love and '98's Is This Desire? has been forgotten: as proved by the likes of Big Exit and the pleasingly frantic Kamikaze, the dominant sound is that of a three-piece garage band, fused with enough production panache to prove that Harvey remains an admirably intelligent auteur.

Brains and beauty come from the Chicagoan cult-rockers. [July 2011, p. 119]

Del Rey sounds regally removed from the box-ticking modernity of her peers, a one-woman advertisement for the appeal of the unreal. [Aug 2014, p.113]

Extraordinary. [Oct 2017, p.108]

Music Complete is like good architecture: impressive in scale, the layers precisely pitched and the repetition absorbing. [Oct 2015, p.116]