"Pop, but not pop. Amazing voice, amazing musician, amazing songs. Think a male Bjork but not afraid to communicate. Violins, beats, pianos, ukuleles, noise. Exquisite."
"Post-everything metaljazzpopexperimentalmathrock or something. Very fast and very accomplished; humanised but robotic, like a perfect android. Also, rocks!"
"Sassy, emotional, communicative female postrock/pop, really well recorded too by modern standards (meaning minimal and dynamic and punchy). Contains the lyric "I'm living near Gdansk" = classic."
"End of last year, I know, but too late for lists and shouldn't be forgotten. Writes a new language for jazz / rock / pop / experimental. Insanely fun and daring."
"Beach Boys through the looking glass and also some kid of weird computer program - ambient, harmonic, earworm music for floating to; love what it does, not what it is."
"Amazing, convincing pre-apocalypse postrock, produced with serious care and power; trust these guys with your life. Last three tracks are amazing. Rest is pretty awesome too..."
"So much more than Godspeed copyists, and deserve more recognition. More tuneful and beautiful than you'd imagine from the term postrock, which has been sullied recently. 2007 is a banner year."
"Friendlier and clearer than before, and almost happier too; given that these guys are the best tuneful 60s throwbacks in London, why have they not got a deal in the UK?!"
"Bjork, + Timbaland, the weird spaceship parping noises from the end of Close Encounters, Anthony, and oodles of Icelandic brass. Better than her previous one."
"Not exciting enough to be 'dance' music and not quite vapid enough to be 'ambient', this is still good, although nowhere near as mind-shatteringly magic as hyped."
"Best packaging of the year by far, plus some very good, hooky, groovey, excitable pop tunes like Flaming Lips used to do before they went boring and rubbish."
"Total, unadulterated MOR, but still, somehow... a guilty pleasure. Beautifully rendered on several levels, yes it's predictable (and hokey) but only cos we know this music insideout."
"Dirty, dirty, dirty Nick Cave side-project with the most amazing guitar sounds ever and lots of lyrics about being middle-aged and desperate for, well, a shag."
"Weatherall & Tenniswood's second album in a month (the first is very limited vinyl), this carries on from Double Gone Chapel - scuzzy, post-dance rock with great grooves and deceptively good melodies."
"An odd one - bits are so compressed and mushed as to be unlistenable, but when it hits properly is a sublimely heavy, scuzzy, psychedelic rock record with amazing guitar."
"Possibly a secret Aphex Twin record, possibly a Devonshire woman called Karen Tregaskin. The sound is definitely Aphex Twin-derived, not dissimilar to Chosen Lords. Either way, really very good."
"Slowly emerging from under a veil of depression, Siobhan thankfully starts moving closer to Cocteau Twins / Kate Bush territory. She still needs better collaborators though."
"A Spoon virgin, I've been pleasantly surprised by this; it doesn't sound like much, but this is just a set of really compositionally interesting songs with great tunes and good lyrics. Refreshing!"
"Both an improvement and not on his last - the physical sonics of this are better, more detailed, delicate and dynamic, but the vocal emphasis on some tracks is distracting. Some amazing stuf, though."
