★★★★★
Consider: For nearly a decade, Yorn has turned broken glass into sunlight, exacted freedom from quavering highway signs, run wild. He's whispered breathy promises broken. Bought whiskey. Cried. Yorn's conflicted protagonists offer assurances, but they fit into flying shoes at dawn. By happy hour, they've stitched their shopworn and bromidic tales into slick novellas boasting ocean vistas and a swooshing West Coast breeze...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
As far as movie soundtracks go, you could do worse than the one for the Farrelly brothers' Me, Myself, and Irene. Songs from late '90s staples of FM rock, from Third Eye Blind to the Offspring and Foo Fighters, make the collection a true alternative rock turn-of-the-century time capsule. But buried at the end, between tracks by the likes of Marvelous 3 and Billy Goodrum, was the soundtrack's best moment: "Strange Condition", the first ever recording from Pete Yorn...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-03-28
★★★★★
What a difference a decade makes. In March 2001, New Jersey singer-songwriter Pete Yorn released an album that seemed to point the way to bigger and brighter things. Musicforthemorningafter was something of a happy accident: Yorn had written the soundtrack to so-so Jim Carey movie Me, Myself & Irene, and the public demanded more. So he responded, and the results were incredibly well received. Since then, though: nothing...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2013-04-23
★★★★★
Ten years after releasing his eponymous debut, musicforthemorningafter, New Jersey's second or third favourite son, Pete Yorn has brushed the dust off his sessions with Pixies front man Frank Black - which predated 2009's Back And Fourth - to release the most rock 'n' roll album of his career...
- www.musicomh.com
2011-02-07
★★★★★
'Diminishing returns'. It's a phrase that gets bandied about a fair bit in reviews, but what does it really mean in terms of artistic careers? Simply put, it means that most artists seem to come out of nowhere with a big debut album. There is excitement, positive interest and a new, growing audience...
- drownedinsound.com
2011-02-07
★★★★★
To get this out of the way, Pete Yorn is a talented songwriter of both infectious pop songs and melancholic ditties of love. This is without question. It is a simple formula, Yorn's music, large choruses and songs of heartbreak. But it is one that has worked for ages and only a few people can really do it well. He is a consistent and solid songwriter His new album, Nightcrawler, reaffirms this fact...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Beginning with the opening blues riffs of Junior Kimbrough's "I Feel Good Again", continuing through the perennial bar favorite, Elvis's "Suspicious Minds", and closing with the acoustic version of Springsteen's "Atlantic City", Pete Yorn unabashedly wears his music heritage on his sleeve. In addition to the covers, throughout the show Yorn references musicians that influenced and inspired him, including some of his contemporaries...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Some artists just seem destined to be played in the background of a bar. That may sound like a fairly strange statement to make, but one listen through Pete Yorn's self-titled effort, and you'd think you were in line for a scotch on the rocks at MacLaren's pub. This is not an attempt to cheapen Yorn's work by any means...
- www.reviewrinserepeat.com
2010-12-14
★★★★★
Ladies and gentlemen: a Pete Yorn double album recorded live in Morristown, NJ!! Not exactly a long-awaited release is it? Well, don't let that fool you. Look inside and you'll discover beer-bar piano, rowdy guitars, and a warm, understated baritone. And they all work to make this a release you'll take note of--even if you're not that big a Pete Yorn fan...
- www.soundspike.com
2010-12-07
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