★★★★★
Lead singer Ryan Miller's efforts highlight the album's first single, "Do You Love Me?" "Do you feel it/Do you feel it now/Because we want it/But we don't know how," he pleads in the pre-chorus. Sure, that's not exactly a groundbreaking sentiment. Still, Miller and his fellow Tufts University alums make it work with a phased-out guitar-driven chorus perfect for pop radio, featuring Miller's falsetto asking of the song's title question...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Summary: Guster growing old. Growing old kind of sucks. Although I'm only in my last year of college and thus fairly young in the scheme of things, everything's already gone down hill - since my 21st birthday has passed me by, the only notable birthday event I have to look forward to is my 25th and a reduction in my car insurance rates, not to mention a decreased metabolism, more bills, and (hopefully but not really) a Monday-Friday job. Talk about an exciting landmark...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2011-02-21
★★★★★
Over the course of 20 years, Guster - the original trio of guitarists/vocalists Ryan Miller and Adam Gardner and percussionist Brian Rosenworcel - has released six CDs. Three to four years have passed between the group's last three respective recordings, however, and it has been four years since they dropped Ganging Up On The Sun...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Guster's 6th release, Easy Wonderful, derives its sounds from the band's last two releases. The band has always been comfortable with small amounts of change or progression - if you listen to 1995's Parachute back-to-back with Easy Wonderful, you'd hear many of the same melodies, progressions, and lyrical themes, but with better production and more electric instruments on the latter album...
- www.reviewrinserepeat.com
2010-12-14
★★★★★
The sixth studio album from the Massachusetts-founded band Guster contains some of the sweetest, most toothache-inducing pop music you're likely to hear this year. Choirboy vocals (Adam Gardner and Ryan Miller alternate lead vocals), sing-a-long falsetto harmonies, thoughtful lyrics and impeccable arrangements (Joe Pisapia and Brian Rosenworcel round out the band) that draw on everything from synth pop to disco to Motown soul combine to make it one of the strongest of the band's career...
- www.ink19.com
2010-12-06
★★★★★
As sometimes happens with bands that make a conscious effort to advance their playing proficiency, Boston trio Guster succumb to the temptations of busier, more complex musicality on this, their much-anticipated fourth release. Good news, right? Well. Though normally a welcome development as it concerns fans, for a band like Guster, whose brilliance and appeal stem from simple and spacious arrangements and melody, it has the effect of making them less interesting...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-09
★★★★★
This is a band that's written two of my favourite songs, well, ever: Either Way (1999's Lost and Gone Forever) and Satellite (2006's Ganging up on the Sun). So, like many of the Guster faithful, I have insanely high expectations. The Boston indie-rock four-piece are usually adept at meeting those expectations, such is their shape-shifty ability to turn conventional pop songwriting idioms on their head in ways both subtle and subversive...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
When Boston's fan-friendly Guster are good, which is always, they are frequently great; when they are great, which is often, they are sometimes phenomenal (1999's Either Way). Such is the case on this post-album (2006's very fine Ganging up on the Sun), eight-song EP, featuring the absolutely outstanding, six-minute Astronauts Remix of the second single, Satellite. Gorgeous, transporting, the perfect complement to any high, natural or otherwise...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Summary: Guster growing old. Growing old kind of sucks. Although I'm only in my last year of college and thus fairly young in the scheme of things, everything's already gone down hill - since my 21st birthday has passed me by, the only notable birthday event I have to look forward to is my 25th and a reduction in my car insurance rates, not to mention a decreased metabolism, more bills, and (hopefully but not really) a Monday-Friday job. Talk about an exciting landmark...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2010-10-18
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