★★★★★
Track List:
1. Sweet Persuasion
2. Wild Child
3. You Make It Easy
4. Only Want You
5. When We Were Young
6. Smoke and Mirrors
7. Don t Mess With Karma
8. Out of My Head
9. Not Too Late
10. Who Am I
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- www.kcrw.com
2013-10-19
★★★★★
Unfortunately, Dennen's effervescent melodies and buttery vocals ("Closer to You," "So Far From Me") will draw lines toward his fluffy beachcomber pal Jack Johnson. Disregard: Jimmy Cliff and Jimmy Buffet share more intellectual property. Focus instead on Dennen's engaging, largely enchanting, first-person vignettes. Fluid storytelling anchors vibrant narratives that forge and forgive, sketching cinematic portraits of maturation both charming in vulnerability and breathless in ambition...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Goto commentsLeave a commentShare Sticky Sweet Babyfaced singer-songwriter Brett Dennen has returned with his latest release Loverboy, a 56 minute sugar rush of effervescent rhythms, buoyant acoustics and an eternal sense of lyrical optimism that would change the heart of the most brazen pessimist...
- www.mxdwn.com
2011-08-29
★★★★★
There's a bias among many that for something to be artistic, it has to be dark and moody. Poetry is only high art, they reason, if it dwells on the negative aspects of the human experience. For that reason, those who focus on positive vibes are often under appreciated. It is exactly in that positivity, however, that Brett Dennen thrives. Since his 2004 debut, Dennen has made a living out of producing irresistibly catchy pop music. His fourth album, Loverboy, follows in that tradition...
- www.glidemagazine.com
2011-05-23
★★★★★
California iconoclast Brett Dennen is an anomaly in today's musical landscape, carving out a niche for himself with his self-titled first album back in 2004 and proceeding to spin out funkily elegant strands of timeless pop that turn on heart, hooks and the total absence of irony. With his androgynous voice, romantic inclinations and gift for neoclassic songcraft, Dennen has built a devoted following while existing outside of any trend or movement --which is why cynics find him such a turn-off...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2011-04-18
★★★★★
Sound: Taking one quart bohemian-folk, a pint of smooth rock and a full cup of luxuriating acoustic-pop and you've got a sonic laite specially made by Brett Dennen. His new album Hope For The Hopeless is puddled by pensive lyrics and reflecting pools of Americana-stylized melodies that deepen the hazy intonations in Dennen's vocals...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Remember that counselor from summer camp, the one who would always bring out his acoustic guitar and get all the kids to sing along to James Taylor and Van Morrison? That's 28-year-old Brett Dennen in a nutshell: His clear, melodic voice and easy-like-Sunday-morning compositions (see: "San Francisco," "Closer to You") are both benign and comforting on Hope for the Hopeless...
- ew.com
2009-06-12