★★★★★
In the space of just two songs on his debut album, Matthew Morrison declares his intentions to 'make love in the summer rain' and 'go upstairs, close the curtains and we're all set to pick up where we left again'. Oh, Mr Schuester! The runaway success of love-it-or-hate-it TV phenomenon Glee has made stars of a cast who were all relative unknowns two years ago and are now beginning to release their own self-titled albums...
- www.themusicfix.co.uk
2011-05-30
★★★★★
Matthew Morrison, who plays glee-club director Will Schuester on Glee, is a Broadway vet with a nimble, earnest tenor -- the sort of voice that's great in a production of Guys and Dolls but seems milquetoast on a pop record. On his debut, Morrison flexes his falsetto in "Summer Rain," an ode to al fresco nooky, and sounds goofy in "Don't Stop Dancing," a cruise-ship version of club music. There are duets with Sting, Elton John and Gwyn-eth Paltrow. (Guess which two sing circles around him...
- www.rollingstone.com
2011-05-17
★★★★★
It's impossible to separate Matthew Morrison's self-titled debut album from the Glee phenomenon, since it's his role on the wildly popular show that gave the erstwhile boy-band member and Broadway performer the cachet to record a studio album. And though Glee started its run with a promising balance of sincerity and self-referential irony, the show has quickly devolved into musical set pieces tethered together by the thinnest slivers of plot and character...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2011-05-16