★★★★★
Title: Kiss Artist: Carly Rae Jepsen Record Label: Universal Music Release Date: 18 September 2012 In One Word: Uplifting Carly Rae Jepsen releases her new album Kiss. If you couldn't get enough of her singles "Call Me Maybe" and "Good Time" ft. Owl City, then you're in for an uplifting treat. Placing third on Canadian Idol in 2007, BC born singer Jepsen has sure come a long way...
- www.musicvice.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Be glad that Carly Rae Jepsen isn't reinterpreting the Great American Songbook, because for a while there, it seemed like she was going to do just that. Back when Jepsen auditioned for Canadian Idol (her parents supporting her love of music from a very young age), she came off as sweet and charming, blessed with a voice that was expressive, warm, and very inviting...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-09-20
★★★★★
Carly Rae Jespen's strengths, which have been roundly declared adequate by the immense popularity of her single "Call Me Maybe," are her simplicity and directness. The most oblique Jespen is willing to get in declaring love, which is her only goal on her second album, Kiss, is the central metaphor in the song "Guitar String/Wedding Ring": Fish shouldn't be out of water and birds have no business in the water...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2012-09-20
★★★★★
Let's get the big question out of the way first. No, there's nothing on this album that will rival Call Me Maybe in the startling ubiquity stakes. None of these songs will appear in YouTube parodies about Doctor Who or the Cookie Monster, and none of them have the power to barge into people's lives - people who don't like pop songs, people who don't even have ears - and force them to be aware of its existence...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2012-09-20
★★★★★
Release Date: September 18, 2012 In the late 1980s, a pop culture phenomenon exploded with the likes of teen singers Debra Gibson and Tiffany in a new genre called "Mall Pop". These young singers would go on tours of shopping malls, bringing their bubblegum pop music right into the land of high pitched screams and squeals from teenage girls...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-09-17
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