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There's much to like here in the sheer energy and obvious artistry of the scoring.
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Beam me aboard!
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Blending traditional tunes with original material.
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A magnificent magnum opus – at last – from Madness.
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Witness the power and conviction of Zoe Rahman live...
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Folk legend revisits his ten year old solo outing.
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Scots luddite delivers eight cantankerous new folk tales.
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These studio readings exult in vital spontaneity and alert reciprocity
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A cumulatively entrancing array of colours and moods.
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Exerts a deliciously morbid pull on the imagination and the emotions
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Heartfelt, honest and heady.
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It seems drawn from the very subsoil of American music.
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An experience as you would expect from the former Cat Stevens.
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TGU remain a creative force to be reckoned with.
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Newly anointed Best Group in the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards for a second year.
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Faithfull's backing band is faultless and impressively multi-faceted to a man.
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Now that she's here, she is to be treasured.
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A perfect gem of album from a significant new talent.
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New contemporary territory in characteristically smouldering fashion.
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One of the most appealing compilation soundtracks of the last few years.
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Can't wait for Sex and the City II? Not a problem
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Confirmation that Sibelius has found a new champion in the young Finnish conductor.
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Fourteen tracks are packed into this marvellously beguiling package.
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Performances throughout brim over with quicksilver wit and silky panache.
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Collection of sundry cues masquerading as a soundtrack.
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Classically-accented score is complemented by a cleverly eclectic handful of songs.
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Still the most sublime sound America has yet produced.
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Finch proves a dexterous negotiator of the fifth variation's hand-crossing gymnastics.
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Another characteristically subtle essay in dislocating musical ambiguity.
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Infectiously sure-footed.
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An album marked out by lyrical and musical maturity.
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Sure-footed collection of sophisticated songs
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The sound of a sinful angel making amends with the world and himself.
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KC, apparently, is in love with boats.
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One of the few great song stylists the UK has produced in recent years.
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One of popular music's most accomplished talents.
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One of the great albums of 2008.
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They simply don't make them like Eartha Kitt anymore.
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Undoubtedly sell by the van load this Christmas
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There are magnificent moments contained within
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glowing, finely delivered
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A covetable reminder of a peerless musical phenomenon at its glorious peak.
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An altogether accomplished album.
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There's lots to like and admire here
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Never less than stimulating
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an album that, by rights, shouldn't have worked, but does.
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A really rather enchanting debut.
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Mercury Rev's finest offering since 1998’s Deserter's Songs.
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Attractive and persuasive in equal measure.
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A magical and mysterious moral fable.
