★★★★★
On his website, Bob Schneider self-deprecatingly comments that his new album - the 11th in a line of studio recordings - came out "great." The fact that he's mastered most music genres effortlessly remains simultaneously exciting and annoying, so
- www.austinchronicle.com
2013-07-25
★★★★★
For an artist releasing his 12th studio album, Austin's Bob Schneider rarely comes off as anything resembling celebratory on the reliably solid Burden of Proof (Kirtland Records). Even though a range of emotions are explored inside of the record's 12 tunes, there's a morose vibe that lurks the heaviest, whether it's lyrically at some points, or musically at other times...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-06-20
★★★★★
Bob Schneider's best work resides in A Perfect Day, even if the album and he still show no signs of peaking. Blueprinted on the lead-off cut of his major-label debut, March 2001's Lonelyland, the Austin music emperor's soft rock made its bow on "Metal and Steel," a page out of Darden Smith's studio-perfect pop. Even so, Lonelyland flies the freak flag of Schneider's locally explosive white-trash funk acts Joe Rockhead, Ugly Americans, and the Scabs...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2011-05-11
★★★★★
A Perfect Day is a statement, and an album, that can be both sarcastic and sincere. Just in time for spring, Bob Schneider's latest effort is at times breezy as well as melancholy, biting as well as laugh-out-loud funny. The opening track, "Let the Light In," with its playful steel drum percussion, urges one to stay positive: "It's been so long since you didn't feel bad/Not spending all the time making people feel sad...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2011-05-04
★★★★★
Once upon a Bob Schneider incarnation, you could buy a t-shirt with a growling lion and the word "FRUNK" in all caps just above it. Frunk, if I recall correctly, was Schneider's invented name for his sound, at the time loosely definable as rock songs with silly (and sometimes oddly insightful) lyrics, funky bass lines, and a generous splash of horns when the mood struck...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2011-04-25
★★★★★
You're never quite sure which of Bob Schneider's many stage personas you'll get with each new disc. One thing's for certain, though: He'll draw broadly from tested singer-songwriter forms without adding much distinction to them. When the Sun Breaks Down on the Moon finds the local cottage industry in total solo mode: Schneider is credited with writing, performing, recording, mixing, mastering, and producing yet with typically mixed results...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
It's no mistake that Bob Schneider's debut album Lonelyland seems a bit of a scattered mess: at first listen, it appears the Austin-based singer-songwriter has got a bit genre-happy and tried to be everything to everyone from the get-go. Not an uncommon path to trod for musicians just out of the gate. By now, though, this is common territory for Schneiderit's just he's been Austin's best-kept secret until now.
Here's where the step back comes into effect for this critic; while the 14-track...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-22
★★★★★
"Saw you on a building / Shining like a sunflower / Put your put your pants on / Thought I'd take a chance on / You!"
Bob Schneider used to spend all his time pissing people off in confrontational and/or sophomoric Austin bands like Ugly Americans and the Scabs. But ever since he embarked on his solo career, more and more people have realized just how great a songwriter and singer he is...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-20
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