It's a disorienting yet potently addictive mix, reflective of industrial metal's labyrinthine roots in electronica, new wave and beyond. [Oct 2023, p.86]

Ash still put out heart and reliable joy. [Oct 2023, p.86]

A modest masterpiece. [Oct 2023, p.86]

It's an album that rewards repeated immersion within its layers of acoustic guitar, questing strings and Mellotron. [Oct 2023, p.87]

Easily the best since their debut, but there's still a way to go before they produce an LP as fine as that again. [Oct 2023, p.87]

It gets a touch ploddy in the middle, but the motorik of Shanty and electric pulse of Chained To A Cloud channel sanguine sunshine. Thriving. [Oct 2023, p.85]

Predictable as this dynamic may be, EITS are never ponderous, never less than beautiful. [Oct 2023, p.84]

This is a fine monument to Sonic Youth's undimmed, anarchic, arthouse rock'n'roll fury. [Oct 2023, p.82]

It takes a few listens, but once it swims into focus it's another knockout. [Oct 2023, p.82]

Double down on revitalising their music while finding new logs to throw on the philosophical fire. [Oct 2023, p.81]

The best showcase yet for a candid performer for whom the warts are the best bit. [Sep 2023, p.79]

This anthology is front-to-back brilliant. [Sep 2023, p.79]

Allen provides a genre-defining pulse. [Sep 2023, p.81]

Visceral stuff, but here's hoping their post-Fitzsimmons (RIP) era takes The Hives on further unexpected journeys. [Sep 2023, p.80]

An hour in her company is still time well spent. [Sep 2023, p.79]

It's invariably over-punctuated by hyperactive prog-metallic drumming and paradiddly percussion that leaves little space for their ideas to breath, while memorable hooks or riffs get buried in the chaos. [Sep 2023, p.79]

Still producing some of their best material. And on this form there's plenty of bite in this cranky old dog yet. [Sep 2023, p.78]

Another cracking album. [Sep 2023, p.80]

The ramshackle mix of lyrical longing, acoustic guitars and glacial synths would ordinarily be described as Americana, but the lyrics are still as British as fish and chips. [Sep 2023, p.76]

A cohesively themed album lathered in muti-tiered guitars, anthemic chouses and high-density power riffage, tempered by road-honed dynamism and built for the stage. [Sep 2023, p.76]

Finally, there's a modicum of funky glide in his introspective alt.country slide. [Sep 2023, p.81]

One to drown in. [Sep 2023, p.85]

Gilded vocal harmonies and gently chiming guitars are uppermost as the band move through subtle variants of form and texture. [Aug 2023, p.77]

An album packed with absolute love and admiration that is moving and inspiring in the extreme. [Aug 2023, p.79]

Pre-Jack'n'Meg, no one would've believed Lira Mondal and Caufield Schnug could replicate B-52's/Kleenex, now it's almost routine. [Aug 2023, p.79]

Grim catnip for 40-something lapsed Nirvana fans. [Aug 2023, p.79]

Matches vintage MaximumRock'N'Roll short, sharp, DIY hardcore blurts with kindergarten puppetry to baffling effect. [Aug 2023, p.79]

Throughout, this album is a defiantly un-laddish joy. [Aug 2023, p.78]