★★★★★
Lisa Loeb is so '90s. Remember her one UK hit 'Stay (I Missed You)'? It transplanted her from the coffee houses of New York to music TV and the top of the Billboard chart; the cutesy but heartfelt breakup pop song, along with Loeb's sexy librarian look, is as encapsulating of the era - and the female singer/songwriter's place in it - as 'Torn' and 'Ironic'...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
I've always had a soft spot for Lisa Loeb, I'm not entirely sure why. I can clearly remember being eight years old when I first started watching Video Hits on Saturday mornings and being entirely enchanted by her soft, super-girlie vocals in "Stay (I Missed You)" and along with many others from my generation, having that image of those foxy cat-eyed glasses burned forever into my memory...
- www.theaureview.com
2013-01-08
★★★★★
Although the familiar cat glasses beckon from the cover of "The Way It Really Is," Lisa Loeb's fourth album, the strange opening instrumental lope of "Window Shopping" is a far cry from hits like "Stay" or "You Don't Know Me." But so starts Loeb's autobiographical recounting of the ending of her six-year relationship with guitarist Dweezil Zappa...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Blah! Big, freewheeling, head boppy songs! It's Liz Phair stuffed with platitudes and that rushed sing-talk that dames of Loeb's category find poignant. The shameful generic quality would be way more palpable if that production wasn't so damn glistening. Ick.
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
The primary purpose of Tails, Lisa Loeb's debut album,is to prove its creator isn't just the bespectacled lucky duckwho landed a song on the Reality Bites soundtrack because shewas a chum of Ethan Hawke's and ended up with a No. 1 tune, thewinsome, disarming "Stay." That No. 1 single closes out Tails,and by then, it's nice to be able to say, Loeb has certainlyproven she's no one-hit wonder. But she's no blinding original, either...
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Sound: Lisa Loeb is know for her acoustic shadowed songs and the truthful occurences she sings about. Nothing is different in her sophomore album "Firecracker" with it's stripped but meaningful songs. She sings with always an acoustic guitar somewhere, which she plays evidently. This album seems to be very personal to Lisa. There is even an occasional woodwind in there also! The guitar goes from simple chord progressions to decent-paced picking. Something girls these days can't do...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
Who doesn't love summer camp? Those endless days of swimming, horseback riding, arts and crafts, bunk beds, and even tearful goodbyes and promises to write can bring a nostalgic smile to the crustiest curmudgeon's eye, which is at the root of Lisa Loeb's second children's album. There's an all-star cast of supporting players, including Jill Sobule and Steve Martin, who supplies banjo accompaniment on the absurdist "The Disappointing Pancake...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Its title aside, this well-crafted but largely soporific sophomore effort could have benefited from some extra gunpowder. Loeb's earnest confessionals are melodically attractive, but the album's chilly, relentlessly polite musical approach is at odds with the artist's soul-baring lyrical stance. She doesn't get around to rocking out until the penultimate "Split Second," which achieves an edgy playfulness that the rest of the disc sorely lacks.
- ew.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
As she proved with her hits "Stay" and "I Do," Loeb is a singer-songwriter who knows how to mix ponderousness with pop-wise charm. Even the slowest stuff here is palatable, and the more upbeat songs aren't all that far removed from the "mature" pop-rock stuff that studio pros have been turning out for Pink and Liz Phair. Which ain't a bad thing at all.
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
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