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