★★★★★
Jimmy Buffett's 31st album is full of chill evocations of island life, from "Einstein Was a Surfer" to "Somethin' 'Bout a Boat." His music is an island, too - a place apart where country, old-guy rock, jokey storytelling and Caribbean rhythms lap into one another. Buffett clearly has Wi-Fi on his boat ("Useless But Important Information" takes a shot at Twitter, and "I'm No Russian" references persecuted punks Pussy Riot)...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-08-20
★★★★★
"Just like Santa, I come around once a year", sings Jimmy Buffett on his new album, a reminder that Parottheads have been able to count on their summer lovin' every year since 1984, a remarkable run by any standard...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Buffett's certainly more likable than the average professional rakehell--he's complex, he's honest, he takes good care of his sense of humor, and above all he doesn't come on like a hot shit. This is his most reflective album, and though I'm nothing like him--"Wonder Why We Ever Go Home" is hardly my take on aging--I find myself interested whenever he stops and thinks, which happens mostly on side one...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
On side one, apparently running out of things to say, he includes among three nondescript covers an Alex Harvey song called "Makin' Music for Money." Buffett would never do this, which is why he's recording his third album in a year and a half, right? On side two, however, he remembers his message: he's a beach bum and always will be. Let's hope so.
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Before he became the smartass captain of a sophomoric,Margarita-soaked beach cult in the '80s, Jimmy Buffett sangthoughtful, tender, and literate songs, both his own and those ofsuch writers as Keith Sykes, Steve Goodman, and Jesse Winchester...
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Jimmy Buffett's 31st album Beach HOuse on the Moon finds the escapist troubadour musing on mortality and regret with a pensiveness that's considerably more compelling than his usual laid-back hedonism. That tone lends a darker resonance to wry, humorous tunes like "Flesh and Bone," suggesting that Buffett's been wrestling with issues weightier than which Hawaiian shirt to wear.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
Jimmy Buffett comes across
as a guitar- strumming Happy Face on most of his 23rd album, Fruitcake, but what
redeems him is the occasional observant lyric among the contrived
moments, as well as several brief but exhilarating instrumentals.
Must to avoid: the slaughtering of Patsy Cline's ''She's Got You,''
recast with an ersatz reggae beat and gender-bending lyrics.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
James Bond fans will be unimpressed that their urbane hero's catchphrase has been hijacked by this barefooted chap with a peach shirt, baseball cap and the kind of grin that says "I spend all my time at my Florida beach house looking at girls." But there's more to the man than the laidback beach bum you see on the cover of License To Chill...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2009-06-12
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