★★★★★
Armed with its hit title track, Bryan's latest offering, Crash My Party, is fraught with catchy hooks and strong melodies, but it's often sidetracked by reductive and forgettable lyrics ("Out where the corn rows grow/Row, row my boat/Floatin' down the Flint River/Catch us up a little catfish dinner"). Ironically, the set's most disposable track ("I See You") was co-written by Bryan himself, yet he later manages to redeem his musical faux pas with the reflective life ballad "Dirt Road Diary...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-08-16
★★★★★
Luke Bryan's fourth album opens audaciously, following some T-Pain-name-checking hick-hop boom-bap with some fast-rhyming drama. Before long, though, the party really does crash: Tempos slow, themes get deep. Bryan spends several songs mooning over girlfriends or his lost small-town youth. Pop-rock riffs try to jump-start "I See You" and "Out Like That," and the all-for-one male bonding of "Blood Brothers" ignites a Bon Jovi blaze of glory...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-08-14
★★★★★
With Crash My Party Luke Bryan finds himself in a position he's never been before. Crash My Party is his first album since ascending to superstar status with the string of Platinum-plus hits from 2011's Double Platinum-selling tailgates & tanlines. Now the reigning ACM Entertainer of the Year, Luke Bryan has achieved Superstar status and as such the 'pressure' to deliver is perhaps higher for the star than it was on even his sophomore album Doin' My Thing...
- www.roughstock.com
2013-08-13
★★★★★
Luke Bryan has been going full steam ahead since he burst onto the country music scene in 2007 with his debut hit "All My Friends Say." With six Top 10 hits (three of which were No. 1 singles), and two hit albums under his belt, Bryan delivers his third album Tailgates & Tanlines, which solidifies his place among the best of today's country male vocalists...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Over the past four years Luke Bryan has cultivated the youthful part of his fan base with seasonal collections of "Spring Break" party music Digital EPs. With enough tracks to fill a whole album, this year Luke has released Spring Break: Here To Party, a compilation of the best of his four EPs with a couple new tracks included on the record...
- www.roughstock.com
2013-03-08
★★★★★
The latest from this chart-topping country frat boy is the best spring-break concept album ever recorded. It's also the worst, and probably not the last. The titles tell the story: "Suntan City," "Buzzkill," "Sorority Girl." There are fine country variations on this theme (cf. Brad Paisley's "Water"), but Bryan's songs are witless and boring. You end up with a contact hangover, depressed about American higher education.
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-03-05
★★★★★
Country singer Luke Bryan releases his third LP, Tailgates & Tanlines,and it's only half of what you would expect. Yes, there is the expectedass-shaking, and more of the same from a guy who has released songs with suchpartyin' titles as "Take My Drunk Ass Home" and "Drinkin' Beer AndWastin' Bullets."But it's when Bryan dials it down a notch that something real happens...
- www.the-trades.com
2011-10-03
★★★★★
Nashville's B list has always been full of serviceable singers who are able to build lengthy careers on albums that spawn a couple of radio hits without ever doing anything the least bit distinctive or halfway interesting. Luke Bryan's third album, Tailgates & Tanlines, falls into that same trap, and it places him alongside the likes of Jake Owen and Jason Michael Carroll as a second-tier act...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2011-08-22
★★★★★
A few songs on Luke Bryan's new album find the singer reaching (desperately?) beyond the stylistic sphere of the typical country music audience member. One notable tune, of course, is the single "Country Girl (Shake It For Me)," which is an out-and-out dance song, country style. Bryan even performed it at the CMA Awards accompanied by sexy girls worthy of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. Then on "Drunk On You," Bryan sings about music that makes his speakers go boom-boom...
- www.roughstock.com
2011-08-08
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