"Country-ish home-grown miserablism recorded in a bathroom. The music is warm and atmospheric; the lyrics are strange on the surface and heartbreaking underneath."
"Madchester's favourite ecstasy-guzzlers The Happy Mondays are easily eclipsed by their social antics, but their music was far better, full of invention (and some plagiarism) as well as great lyrics."
"Harold Budd could write pointless new age twaddle one year and the next come up with atmospheric genius. Him and Eno here form so much emotion and imagery from so little, it's a wonder how it happened"
"Something of an epic hardcore opera of a boy who runs away from home, which still manages to cling to melody amongst the roars of razor-wire guitars."
"The unsung kings of credible British indie rock, Idlewild started off (largely) very uncommercial indeed. Shows that Roddy used to scream like a Taz the Tasmanian devil's Scottish cousin."
"Gravitating away from the shouting and shambling tidal waves, 100 showed them embracing their more melodic side, but not forgetting their roaring roots."
"Their shot at stadium rock and it works brilliantly. One of the first records I ever bought with my own money and it still stacks up incredibly well."
"Probably their best yet. This sees them embracing folk as an influence and forgetting punk altogether. The songs themselves are their most enduring and personal."
"One of the ten best albums of the 2000's. The post-punk revival starts here and swings between brilliantly driven miserable rock songs and soaring atmospheric elegies."
"While the music (mostly consisting of a few acoustic guitars, vocals and banjo) has a warm glow, the vocals and lyrics often sound troubled but always deeply personal."
"Since their T-shirts are worn by fleets of moronic posers, it's easy to forget that Iron Maiden are a great metal band and one of the few to have great crossover potential without sacrificing ideas."
