This seventh official LP is definitively their best so far. [Oct 2013, p.113]

He beefs up his sound with thumping drums and strings and what emerges sounds epic in comparison. [Mar 2012, p.111]

Meditative yet pulsing, awkward yet affecting Suuns' contrasting waves deliver an eerie, engaging adrenalin rush. [Apr 2013, p.111]

This is a record that opens up the time and space to think, picking up echoes, melting them down into something new. [Aug 2020, p.102]

A parade of intriguing timbres and textures ensures each song is as seductive as the last. [Summer 2018, p.113]

Infectious, sun-bleached and psychedelic--the welcome return of a South American institution. [Oct 2009, p.114]

While these songs still have Matsson's trademark melancholy at heart, there is a new kind of gladness and hope to them too. [Jun 2015, p.112]

The Ballad of The Kingsmen is just about the best distillation of free speech and the delusion of democracy ever recorded, while Mushroom Story will have you laughing and crying. [Apr 2011, p.98]

Espers' folk apocalypse is very now--and very welcome. [Dec 2009, p.112]

Superb. [May 2012, p.105]

Produced again by former Arcade Fire man Howard Bilerman, here spare, lovelorn songs such as zithery vigil The Shore evoke an elegant melancholy, while the more rugged likes of Gold Rush dart forth on galloping drums, fiddles and banjos. [Feb 2010, p. 104]

Sprawling, ambitious and politically conscious. [Sep 2016, p.102]

Teenage Fanclub may just have made their best record yet. [Oct 2016, p.110]

The whole thing is raw, exhilarating and completely compromised. [Aug 2013, p.102]

These are immaculately crafted songs. [Oct 2016, p.105]

It all feels so much more intentional than before, the mix of pop and experimentation they've long striven for. [May 2004, p.99]

As You Were stands as proof that rock's most charismatic general is back on active service and spoiling for trouble. [Nov 2017, p.102]

Potent stuff. [Jan 2018, p.114]

Sees a great guitarist becoming a great songwriter. [Apr 2006, p.113]

It's easily enough to leave you wishing The Coral would get their distinctive acts together again soon. [Dec 2014, p.108]

Wordy troubadour's sixth and finest effort. [Sept. 2010, p. 118]

The London Sessions isn't quite the hoped-for wholehearted embrace of the UK house nation, but it witnesses the reawakening of one of modern soul's most durable sirens. [Jan 2015, p.127]

A second disc continues the upbeat mood of the main album. [Jan 2012, p.135]

This zeitgeist-friendly genre-hopping proves the trio are moving with the times, but it's satisfying to note that when they return to their starkly simple, powerful melodic trademark sound on closer Hallelujah, Haim remain in a league of their own. [Jun 2020, p.94]

It's 20-minute closer Unrelenting Unconditional, however, which steals the show with its spectacular reimagining of Miles Davis's epic early '70s experiments in transcendental jazz-funk. [Apr 2015, p.108]

While Cuttin' Heads hardly stretches him, Mellencamp dresses up his old tricks beautifully. [Mar 2002, p.125]

It does reconfirm her knack for making grown-up dance albums unlike anyone else. [Jun 2015, p.106]

Matt Shultz makes a natural showman firmly in the mouth Perry Farrell mould. Front of house taken care of, it's then just a matter of pairing the noise and excitement, something they achieve in short, sharp bursts with room to spare. [Apr 2011, p.98]