The songs contained within make fellow travelers such as Dr. John or Tom Waits sound like eunuchs. Marvelous stuff. [No. 116, p.55]

Another low-key masterpiece wrapped in spooky twanging guitars, heartbroken harmonies, droning tempos and lyrics that often don't rhyme, delivered in Brett Sparks' deadpan, rumbling baritone. [No. 136, p.57]

There's nothing else like it, and once you listen, you'll never forget it. [No. 136, p.61]

Autechre's are notions are studied as they are transportive and on Exai, the duo fairly dares us not to lose ourselves. [No. 96, p.53]

Hamburg Demonstrations is the most carefully produced and executed music of his career. [No. 138, p.54]

All of it bears his precise touch, but the spectrum of moods he's able to conjure just got a lot wider. [No. 103, p.56]

An album chock-full of some of the most melodic and memorable work the band ever produced.... This reissue definitively covers the final chapter of Reed's time with the band that not only established his street cred, but launched him headfirst into his solo career. [No. 126, p.56]

Siberia recaptures the exciting invention and fire of a lost album recorded between Today's Active Lifestyles and Exploded Drawing without a hint of any decade but the one we now sit in, plus whatever is going to musically transpire in the future. [No. 103, p.58]

The group's warmest, most charitable album to date. [No. 98, p.61]

All of [the tracks are] meaty, beaty, big and bouncy. [No. 132, p.53]

Almost every inch of The Worse Things Get is stout and strong-willed. [No. 102, p.52]

A surprisingly accessible island of misfit pop songs. [No. 113, p.55]

The anthology does yield insights, especially where Mar is concerned. [#82, p.51]

In Conflict is his masterpiece--if not the best album of 2014, certainly the most profound. [No. 109, p.59]

The Membranes take on heady stuff. [No. 123, p.61]

Near-brilliant... smoldering slabs of sonic complexity... [#46, p.86]

This twisted, sublime, and otherwise genious U.K. pop outfit's toss-offs, b-sides and radio sessions border on surpassing the group's albums. [#48, p.92]

Every move this unit makes feels intrinsically and unaccountably right in all sorts of inexplicable ways. [No.92 p.57]

These recordings are the sound of a man back in the game and ready to pounce. [No. 100, p.52]

Every track here honors the spirit behind her perfromance style first and foremost. [No. 121, p.51]

What On really proves is that great albums aren't a thing of the past. [#54, p.94]

Bassist Dunn and drummer Stanier lay down weird sprightly grooves, while guitarist Denison arranges their melodies into something hard and densely poppy with arch-but-upbeat harmonics pulled from Pet Sounds. [No. 95, p.61]

They've managed to write one the hookiest, most satisfying albums of their career. [No. 119, p.53]

On [Her Majesty...], the whimsy and multicolored narrative threads that represented the best of the Decemberists' terrific first album are given room to breathe. [#60, p.96]

A wonderful album, with Coomes and Weiss at their very best. [#51, p.107]

It's pure pop for grown-ups, filled with smarts, experience and a faith in the power of four-quarter time, played with the kind of chemistry that's only possible in musicians who've spent their whole lives together, rocking out as if nothing else matters. [No.88 p.55]

Seven bonus cuts from the same project make it more than worth picking up even for those who've worn out the original. [No. 101, p.58]

[A] consistently nourishing collection. [No. 108, p.53]