Marling's seventh solo LP has the clarity, mastery and quiet strength of a folk-rock classic. [Jul 2020, p.110]

Here he revisits an early interest in exotica, the '50s faux-tropical lounge style, creating mood music with a global twist. [Jul 2020, p.110]

If you've ever half-enjoyed an Eels album, What's New, Tomboy? will make you swoon. [Jul 2020, p.109]

These 10 tracks sustain a brooding atmosphere. [Jul 2020, p.109]

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]

Cenizas creates the precious illusion of space and motion. [Jul 2020, p. 109]

A wonderful counterpart to his book, and just as special on its own. [Jul 2020, p.110]

Misch's fluid songwriting is still to the fore, as on the title track's loose-limbed shimmy, heightened by an uplifting string arrangement. [Jun 2020, p.102]

All of [the songs] exhibit the unique charms of the Chicago singer/songwriter. [Jun 2020, p.99]

It's the voice that carries it all: rawer and more rousing by the minute. [Jun 2020, p.108]

Paranoid, doomy synths temper the classicism of Christinzio's luxuriant Harry Nilsson songwriting. [Jun 2020, p.94]

An atmosphere of heightened weirdness prevails. [Jun 2020, p.95]

It's the sound of grand ambition realised. [Jun 2020, p.98]

Perspicacious and personal, cool and colossally enjoyable, Sawayama is both a triumph over trauma and a paean to the power of effervescent pop in practically all its forms. [Jun 2020, p.98]

Well worth the wait. [Jun 2020, p.105]

Showing his mastery of modern music in all its form. [Jun 2020, p.98]

Authoritative, direct and exhilarating. [May 2020, p.100]

An album that dares to tackle life's big questions head on. [Jun 2020, p.101]

An 18-song adventure in sparse and particular beauty. [Jun 2020, p.97]

It's a record of quiet confidence, its brightness dialled down but its impact still fierce. [Jun 2020, p.100]

For every screamed verse there's a genuinely soft melody. ... The Garden's uniquely garbage kind of glamour is far better than their clownish antics would suggest. [Jun 2020, p.100]

Simultaneously disorienting and seductive. [Jun 2020, p.106]

Ward continues to set a standard few other artists can match. [Jun 2020, p.106]

Spidery tendrils of sex-and-drugs-related dread curl around dramatic synth-pop and twinkling R&B, Yet there's also a batch of tracks that draw from bombastic, slightly tacky '80s pop - a warm, funny and wholly welcome diversion from the stylish but sterile bleakness that remains Tesfaye's calling card. [Jun 2020, p.106]

Sleazy listening at its best. [Jun 2020, p.106]

The sonic scope here is far wider, incorporating both industrial and squawking jazz into something that chimes perfectly with uncertain times. [Jun 2020, p.106]

It's his sharp, searching lyrics that elevates 3.15.20 to giddying heights. [Jun 2020, p.106]

The songwriting is more direct. [Jun 2020, p.105]