★★★★★
Michael Bublé operates within an alternate reality to most jazz or traditional pop vocalists, a world where sales aren't measured in hundreds or thousands but in multiples of platinum. To a significant degree, that vast audience defines his music. The expectation from several million fans is that each new album will deliver a couple high-octane tracks ideal for MOR radio play...
- jazztimes.com
2013-05-31
★★★★★
Men at Work, Ex-East 17 singer Brian Harvey and A Flock of Seagulls: three of a tiny handful of acts technically active in 2011 not releasing a Christmas album this year. For the indie kids there's , or Smith & Burrows' Funny Looking Angels record; for the tweenies, Justin Bieber; for those whose mistletoe-and-wine musical preferences are softer-of-centre than a gooey Quality Street, has a festive disc on the shelves. But for the mums basting the turkey and supping the bucks fizz...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
So what if Michael Buble is still--what?--8 years old, maybe? The kid proved two years ago with the release of his self-titled debut that he's got the vocal chops to knock the snot out of just about every powder-blue-tuxedoed lounge singer in Las Vegas. Likewise, this full-length follow-up should be a knockout punch to all the other young contenders who aspire to Frank Sinatra's throne. That's not to say that Buble is Blue Eyes-worthy on everything here...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Due, no doubt, to the success of his adult-contemporary smash "Home," the neo-Rat Pack crooner makes a few too many soft-rock concessions on his new studio disc. Crazy Love. Covering the Eagles, as Bublé does with a hokey version of "Heartache Tonight," seems way beneath a singer with his level of style...
- ew.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Michael Bublé is the class clown of traditional pop. Like his idol Bobby Darin, he brings a cheeky rock & roll attitude to popular standards, which he swings harder than Darin and with the same wholehearted exuberance as Tony Bennett, who has anointed him an heir apparent. There's a fine line between suave and unaffected, creamy and oily, and Bublé stays on the honest side of it...
- www.blender.com
2010-08-22
★★★★★
Michael Bublé's decision to enter the studio with his band alongside him, a format tried and tested by his idols Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, has paid off handsomely. Each song on this flamboyant new CD thrills the ear as though it were a live performance. Bublé lays down his cards from the word go with a highly theatrical interpretation of the torch song Cry Me a River - far removed from Julie London's sultry rendition which she recorded many moons ago...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2010-08-22
★★★★★
It's now official: Michael Buble is the self-crowned king of retro swing. As evident throughout this brief CD, recorded live in L.A. and covering just eight tunes in a scant 31 minutes, and the accompanying DVD that captures significantly more of the same evening, Buble has found the pot of gold at the end of his Sinatra-wannabe rainbow. He records for Reprise, the label Frank founded. He covers Sinatra tunes (here, a sparkling "Summer Wind")...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
★★★★★
Navigating one of the sharpest ascents since Sinatra wowed the bobbysoxers, Vancouver crooner Michael Bublé's blend of simmering charm and pop perspicuity often appears manufactured with assembly-line precision. Still, there's no denying the guy's got his finger on the populist pulse...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19