“Alternative” Reviews

This record is one of the greatest jewels of emotion and creativity to emerge from 1998.

Call it brilliant, call it wrong, but it will certainly cause listeners with a more delicate palate some pause.

If you’re of a sensitive disposition, you won’t like this album. Trust me.

Tindersticks consolidate upon the wry intimacy and skewed pop sensibilities that has seen them regularly top critics’ polls.

You can create beautiful songs that tread on the edge of human perception, but still inject warmth and emotion into them.

I’ll take Sylvian’s excesses any day over, because I know there’s a sensitive mind at work here.

From start to finish, the Boo Radleys explore the whole of pop, ranging from short, punchy numbers full of hooks to long ballads.

Deep’s music was more accessible than that of any Bauhaus records, but it keeps the same quality that characterizes them.

This is a work of art of an artist whose creative spark doesn’t seem to sell out regardless of the circumstances.

It’s not a dull listen, because one never knows just how a song is going to end up.

Every song here could be a single.

The soundtrack is a great sampler of some of the best acts on the Australian music scene.

I’m still pondering some the lyrics on this album.

So for all you cats whose Portishead tapes popped as a result of repeated listens, slide this in and you won’t miss a beat.

Many of these songs were so good that they should’ve been on Maladjusted instead of that album’s weaker tracks.

This will appeal to anyone who wants a heavy, powerful album, both musically and lyrically.

Buy this album, if only to see what’s currently happening in cutting-edge Christian music.

Disappointing, but will do just fine for those who haven’t heard bootlegs of Spiritualized‘s inspired live show.

A dark conviction runs through these songs, along with a tangible spirituality that makes them so intensely captivating.

Wearing sunglasses while sitting behind the wheel is the most appropriate place to listen to this album.