Tim Jonze
More often than not ... Mø lets her eclectic influences percolate at their own pace, and the slinky guitar lines of Maiden are a perfect example of how hypnotic she can be.
11y
This fifth ... manages to connect those different directions – the muscular riffs of Humbug and the wistful pop of Suck It and See – with the bristling energy and sense of fun that propelled their initial recordings.
11y
Inevitably, Arc lacks coherence; it's the sound of a band working out who they want to be.
10y
Throughout Devotion you're never told to sit up and pay attention. Instead it quietly works its magic, a genuinely individual statement by an artist who didn't expect to become a pop star, but might struggle to stop it happening anyway – after all, the groove is in her heart.
11y
There's a life-affirming sense of vigour, the sound of an artist who knows what he does best and is going to keep on doing it: grandiose, powerful rock'n'roll songs that contain uplifting gospel choirs and the sense that life can indeed be saved, or at least soothed, through music. Long may he continue.
8y
For all their talk of making "haunted house music", they too often enjoy sounding like Tango in the Night-era Fleetwood Mac.
7y
On first listen, you'll think someone should have spent a couple of hours with them in the editing studio. A few plays down the line, you'll realise that really would be missing the point.
11y
This, perhaps, has always been the thrilling paradox of Lady Gaga – that she can be the most exciting, confounding and mind-bogglingly creative artist on planet pop while still sounding like an early-90s Tampax advert.
11y
Fuck Buttons have less in common with the overly cerebral noise boffins they're compared to and more with the likes of Ennio Morricone: sonic explorers mapping out the landscape's emotional terrain, albeit one that exists in some far-off galaxy.
10y
Girls are genuine drop-outs, bona-fide freaks who’ve made a record far removed from the predictable cycles of the music industry. Now that’s a real story.
15y
This is business as usual: string-laced Americana that ranks alongside other literate types such as The Shins or Midlake.
15y
They’ve made this record, not for their bank balances, but for the emo kids, disillusioned Libs fans and alt.rock obsessives who’ve held them close to their hearts since day one.
12y
Never does any of this attention to detail interfere with the record’s main purpose – to make you shake parts of your body you never knew existed.
15y
Essentially this is a stripped-down, punk rock record with every touchstone of Great British Music covered
15y
It’s his masterpiece so far; a staggering collection of unspeakably precious music.
13y
