First Taste is a record exploding with ideas and interesting twists. [Sep 2019, p.109]

A couple of other tracks veer too close to pastiche, but taken as a whole, this is a rich, brave, eloquent piece of work. [Sep 2019, p.108]

What could've been an album of self-pity is transformed into a record of optimism and hope. [Sep 2019, p.111]

Making soaring beauty out of the disarray of her life. [Sep 2019, p.112]

It all ads up to an unlikely, if not unlovable nostalgia trip to a less fraught time. [Sep 2019, p.112]

A mix of '70s art-rock, hipster funk and sleek DeLorean pop. ... Shuman's loss is our gain. [Sep 2019, p.112]

Throughout the songs share a similar colour palette, but vary in tone, texture, technique. It's the sound of a band enjoying the discovery of their sound. [Sep 2019, p.115]

Turn Off The News captures his talents in full bloom. [Sep 2019, p.115]

All in all, the treatment effectively lights these already great songs from fresh angles, revealing hidden depths and added poignancy to what was already a strikingly powerful set of songs. [Sep 2019, p.116]

This splurge of hits and misses is a pure energy infusion. [Aug 2019, p.119]

Fever Dream is a dizzying rush of exuberance and emotion. [Aug 2019, p.115]

Perfectly encapsulate what Astronaut Buzz Aldrin described as space's "magnificent desolation." Includes new LP, All Mankind, making it truly indispensable. [Aug 2019, p.119]

Eerie yet often enthralling electronica. [Aug 2019, p.108]

[The] dub deconstruction of second LP Con Todo El Mundo illustrates the trio's virtuosity at sculpting pleasingly languorous, stripped-down soundscapes. [Aug 2019, p.113]

The projects most diverse and entertaining recording so far. [Aug 2019, p.109]

It's a record that turned out exactly as Hutchison intended. [Aug 2019, p.111]

Kokoko! are far more ramshackle affair than Mbongwana's dub-drenched African Funk, with "instruments" all but salvaged from junkyards. The effect is deliriously infectious--Gruff, chanted vocals, wandering basslines and often woozy FX that can render the whole disorientating and dreamlike. [Aug 2019, p.112]

The curiously carved music is a perfect frame. Another peak. [Aug 2019, p.115]

Although III doesn't offer anything to rival [2014's Beggin For Thread] in songwriting stakes, it does manage to mine thrills from an adventurous production. [Aug 2019, p.108]

This is gold for fans. Worth the £18 for the definitive version of lost classic Lift alone. [Aug 2019, p.119]

Wiggy, long-sought after 1976 LP utilises the trills, parps and hums of the pre-digital modular synthesizer to walk the circuit board between easy listening and ambient weirdness. [Aug 2019, p.119]

An album made for--and from--these times. [Aug 2019, p.112]

The shock of the new is gone, but they've rediscovered the art of surprise. [Aug 2019, p.111]

Sounds like the work of a band reinvigorated. [Aug 2019, p.117]

It struggles to impart much buoyant energy, with individual songs tending to sink into soporific mass of breathy vocals and mellow riffs. [Aug 2019, p.116]

Brilliant debut, splicing rock, modern pop and EDM. [Aug 2019, p.116]

Magician's Success and the Can-does-The-Normal bleep of Backstroke could be missing soundtracks to some experimental Cold War animation. [Aug 2019, p.116]

There are curveballs along the way--an unexpected bagpipe riff on Hey Ma, for instance--but largely this is a fast, furious record that sounds startlingly vital in these worrisome times. [Aug 2019, p.116]