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A passionate and seductive album which reminds us how distinctive this band can be.
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Harcourt’s sixth album features moments of deft, delicate brilliance.
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Four may be 2012’s most exciting guitar album – who would have predicted that?
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The most accessible ‘greatest hits’ set yet from one of England’s greatest songwriters.
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It’s no Klaxons catastrophe, but this second set is a so-so return on four years’ work.
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The most versatile and glitteringly brilliant pop band of our new millennium.
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Intelligent, ambitious and brilliantly realised, Born to Die defies any backlash.
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A band with a seemingly effortless knack for a pop hook.
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An expanded reissue of the Pumpkins’ potential-rich 1991 debut.
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An album uncertain of its direction, from a band making the journey very interesting.
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There are moments of beguiling brilliance on this fifth studio effort.
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Fan-dream edition which captures the band when they seemed capable of anything.
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lang’s fresh start finds her more energetic and playful than she’s been for years.
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The songwriting great still casts an impressive shadow across pop.
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A feast of style, but the electro duo’s debut skimps on substance.
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Deserves to catapult them into indie pop’s premier league.
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The pop landscape has been a much more interesting place with P!nk in it.
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An ebullient, daring album which sounds more like a fresh start than a final destination.
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X Factor winner reveals a disco-dusted debut of giddy pop pleasures.
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A scattershot collection of old singles, B sides and remixes.
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The Swede is the best, most versatile pop star currently at work.
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Though wildly inconsistent, the Dandys were capable of producing glittering pop gems.
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A far livelier and more enjoyable record than 2006’s Ta-Dah.
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No other album has ever matched its morose magnificence.
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An unexpected, intelligent success from an artist proving her detractors wrong.
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They remain one of our most fascinating, extraordinary bands.
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Robin Proper-Sheppard’s latest demands patience, but rewards it lavishly.
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Inconsistent, haphazard, dark and occasionally touched by pop genius.
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Songs soon lose their way in blizzards of fiddly guitar excess.
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A weak and watery debut, sonically and melodically shallow.
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A confused, uncertain but intriguing debut.
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The duo’s prospects have brightened, though their sound has not.
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Intricate, complex musicianship that makes perfect sense of the band's name
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A beguiling record, their finest to date.
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British Sea Power are to be cherished for their originality and daring.
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Are the band falling prey to the law of diminishing returns?
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Is the 'genius' from Omaha spreading his talents too thinly?
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Clark has made the leap from promising to thrilling.
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There won’t be many sharper, more energetic guitar records in 2009.
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Yes is a wonderful vindication, and their finest album in many, many years.
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It's a rich, distinctive and sure-footed album.
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You may find it admirable, beautifully crafted but, finally, limited.
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More ambitious than many previous covers record.
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There are enough haunting hooks and delicately well written tunes here.
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As such it's tart, sweet and satisfying.
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The results can be riveting
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Will intoxicate those with the stomach for such things.
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It's all you can do not to leap into the Atlantic and start swimming.
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What makes this blip pop so maddening is the suspicion that it conceals real talent.
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Visiter reveals its hidden depths slowly.
