None of this is world-changing stuff, even if it does sound like it was fun to make.
Dwell is an impressive album of other people's voices and other people's tunes.
While On Your Sleeve is obviously a labour of love, on the whole it's simply just...
For rare groove aficionados it doesn’t get any better than this...
A consistently high-level display of songwriting craft.
Jukebox makes for a smart and occasionally fantastic diversion.
This is one band who won’t be heading towards the road’s middle for some time yet.
The album that may make France's favourite blues/world artist finally make his mark in...
The bulk of this self-titled album appears to be the work of a man only...
The Yonkers rapper's compilation of the Def Jam years.
Festival favourites produce a good time album for good time people...
'Playtime Is Over' is no classic, but those retirement plans could be on hold for a...
It’s no masterpiece, not yet, but frequently Nathan comes damn close.
Those inevitable and lazy Vicky Pollard/chav comparisons will soon come thick and fast...
...at best, an ill-fitting tribute.
...something of an endurance test.
A real dogs breakfast of an album.
Think Prince meets Cameo with a touch of Howard Jones.
...this exercise in nostalgia is, on the whole, a thrilling one.
...starts off illuminating, but ends up banal.
Has Fiddy been feeding them stupid pills?
...fizzles with raw energy and outrageous talent.
Filthy, funky and addictive...
...a solid enough collection of slow jams, but one parading under a misnomer of a title.
Their overtly political stance seems about as contemporary as The Cabbage Patch Kids.
...you can hear the careers of Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias crumbling into dust.
...whatever they produce has always been executed with admirable levels of wit,...
...less an album than an extended skit.
Running the risk of sounding like just about every other R'n'B diva on the block is a...
...performs a strain of hip-hop about as far out on the peripheries as the genre gets.
...musically brilliant, but otherwise curiously sterile.
...an album for the downloaders, a few great songs tacked onto an hour of dicking about.
...the competition might be all Tito's and Randy's, but De La Soul are still the main...
Vybz Kartel has the sound and the attitude to be a big star and he's riding some of...
Grown men turned back to boys again and Brian Wilson's genius was reconfirmed in...
As a marketing exercise it's genius...
This really is the definitive collection from a much-loved legend.
...certainly entertaining and occasionally mind-blowing.
...as an insight to a world beneath the headlines Afrolution is invaluable.
As an experiment, this is mostly lost in translation.
