★★★★★
After breaking into the national spotlight last year with their album Cabaret , Moon Taxi offer a follow-up that aims even higher. The band's third studio album Mountains Beaches Cities has full-scale ambitions and an appetite for adventure, with songs that dive boldly into unexpected time signatures, surprising moments of intimacy or bombast, cross-genre experimentation and the band's own twisted visions of pop conventionality...
- www.relix.com
2013-10-03
★★★★★
Tweet Ride this Taxi Wherever it Goes When a vocalist has as strong of a delivery and style as Trevor Terndrup, it's a sin to obscure it beneath layers of indulgent jamming and unnecessary tangents. That's what Nashville's Moon Taxi figured out on their astounding third studio release, Mountains Beaches Cities...
- www.mxdwn.com
2013-09-17
★★★★★
Nashville's best kept secret is out. Since the release of Cabaret in early 2012, Moon Taxi have been on a steady climb away from the jam rock sound they built their reputation on, veering toward more radio-friendly, song-oriented material. For a record named Mountains Beaches Cities, Moon Taxi's latest effort is surprisingly inorganic, but don't go calling them Kings of Leon just yet...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-09-06
★★★★★
12th South While still continuing to investigate and develop their trademark reggaeinfused indie-jam sound, Moon Taxi turns the page toward a new era on Cabaret. The opening "Mercury" explodes out of the gates, setting a colorful tone. The band's radio-ready personality and refined pop sensibilities glisten on songs like "All The Rage" and the turbo-charged "Radio...
- www.relix.com
2012-03-06