Parker's music is approached from a post-Coltrane, post-free jazz aesthetic, with the rhythmic edginess of bebop elided into an all-the-time-in-the-world fluidity. A masterpiece.

The world adored the xx's Mercury Prize-winning debut album xx. Coexist is, if anything, an even finer piece of work.

It is absolutely beautiful.

Even though the album comes in at nearly 80 minutes, surprisingly it doesn’t feel too long. This is largely because it doesn’t get stuck in an Afrobeat rut.

Feels Like Home is musically conservative, socially ingratiating, politically vulnerable. It is unmistakably a piece of product. But it is also brilliant.

ODIGTS is the soul album of the century. It might yet turn out to be the album of the year

A genuine classic, in fact.

The first really serious contender for album of the year thus far.

Her self-produced fourth album executes another dramatic confidence leap.

All of this adds up to something very special indeed.

MBV leaves all other post-rock experimentalists looking like trivial dilettantes. If jet engines could sing, these would be their hymns.

Stapleton's writing for this recording, satisfies on every level.

It's a rather beautiful thing.

This may well be Henriksen’s most approachable album--certainly for people coming to him for the first time--and even the semi-commercial breakthrough he deserves. It is also absolutely sublime.

The most perfect suite of music recorded in my lifetime.

Marvellous.

Fear Fun is the kind of album that can name-check Sartre, Heidegger and Neil Young in the same song.

What comes across most is the sheer unbridled enthusiasm expressed in the complex, racing rhythms, squalling sax solos, twanging electric guitar and crooning vocals.

The most compelling Spanish album I've heard in ages.

But where Learning drifted into the ether, this captivating follow-up thrives off harnessing his fragile sensibility to fulsome melodies.

There are four CDs' worth but it's enormously rewarding, like mid-period Miles Davis playing Ligeti.

The occasional familiar, Carpenters-esque track aside, it makes for an exhilarating musical progression--even as his lyrical style remains unchanged.

Drawing on anything from Medieval plainsong to free jazz, she creates an extraordinary sensation of light, air, and space.

Funny, sad, perfect.

This is a band for fans of Leonard Cohen, Scott Walker and Nick Cave who wondered where their next great love was coming from...it's already here.

To the relief of anyone who carries a torch for the reclusive genius, it's a beauty.

It's that rare commodity: an album to immerse yourself in and spend time with, both things no one does any more.

Wonderful.