★★★★★
It's tempting to dismiss Josh Groban as yet another classical crossover villain: a kind of one-man Il Divo. After all, it was his version of You Raise Me Up that Westlife copied and turned into an X Factor favourite.
Trouble is, the LA-born singer comes across very well in interviews, displaying a playful sense of humour that's not present in his music...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-02-19
★★★★★
Josh GrobanAll That Echoes
(Reprise)
Rating: 4 stars (out of 5)
Although rock and Josh Groban have rarely, if ever, been used in a sentence together, All That Echoes is a rewarding fusion of pop, rock, and classical music theories. With the assistance of veteran producer Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance) manning the board for his latest and first release since 2010, Groban delivers his biggest sounding and most significant set...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-02-05
★★★★★
The pairing of Josh Groban with Rob Cavallo, the producer behind the burnished roar of Green Day and My Chemical Romance, is an idea that seems simultaneously too perverse to work and too intriguing to pass up. Alas, "All That Echoes" neutralizes Cavallo to the point where it's hard to see why he got the job in the first place...
- bostonglobe.com
2013-02-05
★★★★★
Curly haired, 25-year-old baritone Josh Groban pulls out all the stops on his third album, "Awake," collaborating with Ladysmith Black Mambazo on two songs (one of which also features Vusi Mahlasela), and enlisting Herbie Hancock to brighten "Machine," a horn-laden, soul-inflected song that should be suitable for pop listeners who may have otherwise written Groban off. Groban's longtime producer David Foster is noticeably absent on the new CD...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Of all pop's odd couples, the recent partnership of renegade producer/Def Jam founder Rick Rubin and sprightly classico-pop vocalist Josh Groban might go down as one of the strangest. For UK listeners, Groban, whose multi-platinum US success has not quite translated on this side of the Atlantic, will be equally renowned for his instantly likeable guest appearance on Never Mind the Buzzcocks as his full-throated 2003 version of weepy anthem You Raise Me Up...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Josh Groban, a man for whom every note must be belted to the balcony, could easily spend the rest of his career coasting on the explosive success he's had in his 20s. With just four albums, he's already a lion of classically minded pop music as epic as the apocalypse. It's refreshing, then, to see Groban hungry for something different on "Illuminations...
- www.boston.com
2010-11-22
★★★★★
The pop-?classical crooner hired Rick Rubin to produce Illuminations, the follow-up to 2007's zillion-selling Noël, but the result is no clumsy bad-boy makeover. In fact, if you can get past lyrics bloated with dark nights and winter moons, Illuminations might be Groban's handsomest effort yet. "Bells of New York City" raises goose bumps with a haunting melody, while "Você Existe Em Mim" packs real percussive heat.
- ew.com
2010-11-15
★★★★★
I prefer this hunky purveyor of semiclassical ear massage to his polar coordinates, John Raitt and Andrea Bocelli--lacking the voice of either, he rarely shows off, and the ease is a relief. But the critique his label treasures comes from an actual consumer analyzing his two previous multiplatinums: "I bought 4 of each. One each to play in my house, my office, my car, and for my portable CD player." The fan of the future!
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
The 26-year old American with the golden vocal chords finally gets around to doing what any middle-of-the-road musical theatre/classical crooner HAS to do at least three times in their career - makes a Christmas album. It's easy to be sniffy about this kind of thing, but Noel, released in October in the states has already notched up over 2 million sales. To some that may be a lot of schmaltz, but to his obviously huge fan base it's just the ticket...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2009-06-12
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