★★★★★
Hunter Hayes was still a teenager when he recorded his self-titled debut album in 2011. That one had critics raving about the musical maturity of the young man, who wrote or co-wrote every track and played every instrument on the now platinum-selling collection. Fast-forward to almost three years later. Hunter Hayes has once again produced a collection of music that belies his tender age, not only in content, but in vocal confidence...
- www.countryweekly.com
2014-05-23
★★★★★
When Hunter Hayes took to the Grammy Awards in January to premiere his song "Invisible" - a windswept power ballad in which the 22-year-old country singer describes the hardships faced by "outcasts and rebels" - your first response was: What on earth does this kid know about not fitting in? His self-titled major-label debut spawned two No. 1 singles, sold more than 1 million copies and earned Hayes four Grammy nominations, including one for best new artist...
- www.latimes.com
2014-05-23
★★★★★
Hunter Hayes' single "Invisible" is an anomaly on today's country radio - the rare song that treats high school as something more than a golden age of bonfires and first kisses. On his second album, it sits in the middle of 14 tracks with clean arrangements and twangless vocals that could carry the singer-songwriter beyond country radio altogether...
- www.rollingstone.com
2014-05-06
★★★★★
With Storyline Hunter Hayes has moved onto his sophomore project, the project that has to be different than his first, wildly successful debut, Hunter Hayes. Like he did on the tracks for the deluxe edition, Encore!, Hunter has enlisted a crack studio band (mostly his touring band) to help him flesh out the music that's held on Storyline as there was no way he could play every chord progression and melody or sing every note this time around, there simply was no time for that...
- www.roughstock.com
2014-05-06
★★★★★
Hunter Hayes is a young up-and-coming country/pop hybrid artist with a catchy collaboration with Jason Mraz. The song soon became the subject of popular covers by indie artists on YouTube. Well, rather than stomp on this creativity, the record labels did something genius. They invited some of these artists to YouTube Space LA where they joined Hayes and Mraz to record one of those fun and quirky single-shot music videos that are all the rage these days...
- www.the-trades.com
2013-11-21
★★★★★
After selling nearly 800,000 copies of his self-titled album, Hunter Hayes wasn't quite ready to move on from the strong collection of songs from the Grammy-nominated album. Instead of just throwing a couple songs on the album and calling it a "Deluxe" edition, he re-worked three of the original album's 12 tracks and cut five more songs for the album to craft an album for his growing legion of fans, an ENCORE version of the debut album...
- www.roughstock.com
2013-06-14
★★★★★
Blessed with the kind of virtuoso talent that is rare in kinds of genre, particularly country music, Hunter Hayes arrived on the charts late last year with "Storm Warning" and it helped him garner immediate buzz with audiences and a growing collection of adoring fans, many/most of them teen and twenty something girls. This much is evident on Hunter Hayes brand new Hunter Hayes Live EP, a collection of five performances of tracks from his nearly 300,000 sold Hunter Hayes album...
- www.roughstock.com
2012-10-22
★★★★★
Taking one look at the album cover, it'd be easy to pass off Hunter Hayes as some Nashville music executive's idea of a countrified Justin Bieber-like 'clone' yet if you actually take a listen to Hunter Hayes's music and see him perform live, you realize what we have here is a talented young artist (who looks years younger than his actual age of 20 years old). Hunter not only co-wrote every song on the album but he played every note of every instrument (24 instruments...
- www.roughstock.com
2011-12-13
★★★★★
The title of this CD is Through My Eyes. The eyes are those of the artist, who at the time he penned the lyrics was six years old. Hunter Hayes expresses his experience of being so young and having so little control over his own life and destiny. That feeling must be relative, because from the outside it looks like the young Cajun musician is quite in charge...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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