★★★★★
I don't remember much about Howard Jones in the '80s, except that my older sister really liked him. My older sister doesn't really have the best taste in music. Upon reflection on Howard's quite impressive musical career, consisting of genre-forming synth-pop, solo-piano and experimental albums, it seems he is someone to take seriously, even if he is predominantly unnoticed by contemporary mainstream audiences...
- www.popmatters.com
2010-09-02
★★★★★
I don't remember much about Howard Jones in the '80s, except that my older sister really liked him. My older sister doesn't really have the best taste in music. Upon reflection on Howard's quite impressive musical career, consisting of genre-forming synth-pop, solo-piano and experimental albums, it seems he is someone to take seriously, even if he is predominantly unnoticed by contemporary mainstream audiences...
- www.popmatters.com
2010-08-28
★★★★★
Smarter than Cat Stevens. Sexier than Norman Vincent Peale. But not vice versa. And less soulful than either.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
"The cynical few," by which Howard appears to mean people who can think, will detect in the very title of this revolving self-help manual a hint of what the German cynic Nietzsche called ressentiment. No special interests here, folks, because all of us--male and female, rich and poor, white and other, top of the pops and glued to the telly--are in the same human boat. You think you have problems, even enemies? Think again: "And if they were not meant to be/Well don't you think they wouldn't be"...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-06-06
★★★★★
After a three-year wait, this album was a bit of a disappointment. Musically, it is his best yet, but it lacked a certain energy that the others had. The songs seemed to replace vivacity with length. The album didn't do very well on the charts; the number 13 single (U.S.), "Everlasting Love," was the biggest hit. Ironically, the best song on this album, "Out of Thin Air," does not use a single synthesizer but instead is a solo piano piece performed by Jones himself...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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