
A quality album, and band, to restore your faith in contemporary music.

What is immediately apparent is just how musically tight and together an outfit they...

An album full of intrigue and dark-hued beauty

An album of many virtues and considerable beauty.

Hell has never seemed so soft, silky and beguilingly beautiful.

Silvery won't struggle to find an audience for this deliciously chutzpah-saturated debut.

Intelligent, beautifully crafted and compelling.

Goon Island is intense, intriguing, scary, unrelenting, demanding and exhausting.

A valuable look at a key period in a unique musician's life and career.

A likable introduction to Spiteri’s new solo career.

On paper it probably shouldn’t have worked. But on disc it does – and how!

It's samba and it's Seu Jorge, but not as we know it.

One for completists only.

This is one of the essential summer sounds of the year.

Bizarre but strangely beautiful. File under: unique.

Musical globe-trotting conducted with sophisticated elegance and underpinned by a...

Expect to see and hear much more of this fresh and altogether captivating talent.

If you're a Heroes fan you may well want this. If you're not, you certainly won't.

The Sex And The City and the soundtrack. It's either been on your wish list for...

If there's any justice, Velocifero will catapult Ladytron out of their decade-long...

Delights with its tweedy, rustic, big-checked shirts and corduroys charm...

Music making of this quality is all too rare.

A stylish and agile vocalist with a firm sense of tradition.

...A disc that is to be cherished from first note to last.

It's hard to imagine it getting any better than this.

Noel is as perfect a yuletide present as Groban could have given his fans.

One way of guaranteeing yourself a merry little Christmas...

Teatro will sell bucketloads no matter what anyone thinks...

A surprisingly good and satisfying if somewhat over-earnest debut.

A baker's dozen of contemporary hits given a late-night Las Vegas casino cabaret sion...

The Fron can look forward to a busy start to their seventh decade on the back of a...

Neil Gaiman's feisty fantasy gets a suitably saucy soundtrack...

I’m Not There has to rank as one of the most intelligent, thought-through,...

The Flying Club Cup is a bit too much like reading your pretentious younger...

...a fierce collision between Xenakis’s still extraordinary atomised soundscapes

For those who love Manilow, this is a must. For those who don’t, this could well be...

Back with another new direction, the former dance-punk new Yorkers...

It pulses with the kind of ravishing vitality and beauty you only find in...

Summer sunshine...from Melbourne, not Helsinki!

You'll probably get more satisfaction from saving your money for a bag of doughnuts...

This is certainly a work that is worth celebrating and getting to know.

Babs is back, and how!

This album will have you crowing like like 'a cockerel on heat at dawn' apparently!

There is nothing like a Dame.