★★★★★
Five years ago, Mika was on top of the world. Hailed as the brightest star in pop with a number one debut single and a multi-platinum, five million plus selling debut album (Life In Cartoon Motion) it seemed inevitable that he was set fair for a career of chart domination. Things, however, took a rather unexpected turn and 2009's follow up The Boy Who Knew Too Much was markedly less successful...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
Some people love Mika because he's a little bit mental. Others resent him for that. Proving that there's strength in numbers, the former of the two camps showed up in their thousands - fifty-five thousand, to be exact - to watch the eccentric falsetto in question play his biggest concert yet at Paris' famously gigantic Parc Des Princes stadium...
- www.thecmuwebsite.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
If the title of Mika's third studio LP The Origin of Love gives you pause, you're well within reason. This is the same guy who wrote a song about curvaceous women hitting the clubs with diet Cokes in hand ("Big Girl [You are Beautiful]" from Life in Cartoon Motion) and Disney-ready ditties about being a "Toy Boy" (from The Boy Who Knew Too Much)...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-11-19
★★★★★
If the title of Mika's third studio LP The Origin of Love gives you pause, you're well within reason. This is the same guy who wrote a song about curvaceous women hitting the clubs with diet Cokes in hand ("Big Girl [You are Beautiful]" from Life in Cartoon Motion) and Disney-ready ditties about being a "Toy Boy" (from The Boy Who Knew Too Much)...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-11-19
★★★★★
Mika?s latest release ?The Origin of Love? is a cheer-driven electronic pop love-fest, and the fact that the record was apparently born of Mika?s new found happiness is clear from the moment the first and title track begins, sounding a bit like the finale of a High School Musical sequel...
- www.music-news.com
2012-10-18
★★★★★
The PR bumph that comes with Mika's third album breezily suggests it was inspired by Laurel Canyon's dreamy soft rock and Steve Reich's proto-minimalism. If you squint you can just about see it: the sweet strumminess of Lola does have the scent of LA hippy about it, while the title track's looped percussive throb might conceivably have been influenced by Reich...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2012-10-08
★★★★★
More so than most stars, Mika's appeal rests on his silliness - it was his kitschy poperatics that sent his 2007 hit Grace Kelly global and made his debut album that year's ninth biggest selling. On his third album, however, he seems to have made the mistake of taking things too seriously. That voice - part Elton John, part Freddie Mercury and remaining part small child let loose on helium balloons - pairs uneasily with clubby beats...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2012-10-08
★★★★★
When it comes to pure pop, no one does it with as much panache as wonder boy Mika. His third album The Origin Of Love will no doubt please the eight million and counting fans who have bought his other two offerings, if doing little else to expand his fanbase...
- music.thedigitalfix.com
2012-10-04
★★★★★
A Brit Award-winning one-man , returns in a less-than-autobiographical mood for this third album. And he's brought plenty of collaborators with him: shows up on Celebrate, 's Nick Littlemore writes and produces, and there are credits for and JLS/Westlife songwriter Wayne Hector. The Origin of Love starts with a superb title track. It's a ringer for a lost A side, Mika channelling his inner over a lovely groove set atop reflective electro-pop...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
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