★★★★★
Sound: Wow, was the first word that had popped into my head when I heard Secondhand Serenade. Everything about the sound is very unique, and beautiful. Secondhand Serenade could make you easily burst into tears, or mend a broken heart with any song on this album. Every single song on this album, produces the best vocal harmonies that I have ever heard. I know a lot of people dislike the emo genre, but I think that this artist just might change your entire perspective on it...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
It seems that, due to discrepancies in the rates at which they mature emotionally, a point comes at which most adolescent girls conclude--to varying degrees of permanence--that all boys their age are morons. This realization is as much a rite of passage for young women as the causational monosyllabic vocabularies and penis jokes are for young men; casting blame at either would be like blaming tigers for being too carnivorous...
- www.altpress.com
2011-05-09
★★★★★
2008 was the year of opportunity for Secondhand Serenade's John Vesely. The singer-songwriter not only had the opportunity to release his brilliant sophomore album, A Twist In My Story, but he was able to take the pop charts by storm with the ballad "Fall For You." The song's soft, twinkling, piano line and heartfelt lyrics won Vesely fans nationwide. Fast forward two year, Vesely is now preparing to release his third outing, Hear Me Now...
- www.reviewrinserepeat.com
2010-12-14
★★★★★
Release Date: Aug. 3, 2010 He can hate me if he wants, but John Vesely, more commonly known as Secondhand Serenade, is this century's answer to Australian soft-rock kings AIr Supply. While sonically, there's a glaring difference between the 80s quintet and the maudlin balladry of Vesely, emotionally, his output crafts the same heart-on-sleeve pining that makes soccer moms and 15-year-olds wet with glee...
- absolutepunk.net
2010-08-06
★★★★★
Release Date: August 3, 2010 Only one year after releasing 2007's acoustic Awake under the pseudonym Secondhand Serenade, John Vesely released the more multifaceted follow-up, A Twist In My Story in 2008, an album that sold over 250,000 copies as well as spawned over 2.2 million singles, including the breakthrough hit "Fall For You," which reached platinum sales as a single...
- absolutepunk.net
2010-07-30
★★★★★
Sound: A Twist In My Story is the sophomore album of Secondhand Serenade and the debut of its frontman John Vesely with the full band. Vesely is an example of a new-age musician -- after spending night and day on myspace he collected 27 million plays, recorded an acoustic album and was lucky enough to be noticed by a record label. Here the typical story finished and the story of Secondhand Serenade starts...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2009-11-15
★★★★★
John Vesely, the Northern California singer-songwriter who's better known as Secondhand Serenade, has quickly
gone from MySpace phenomenon to prospective Top Ten artist, with TRL
airplay and a growing legion of teenage fans. Too bad he comes off like
a cornier version of Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba: a tattooed
love junkie who wears his heart on his sleeve, his chest and both pant
legs...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
John Vesely's second album finds him supported by a full band this time around. And with the production help of Butch Walker and Danny Lohner, Secondhand Serenade sounds first rate for the Warped Tour tween or teen demographic. That's not to say that everything sounds original or unpolished. In fact "Like a Knife" sounds like something Angels & Airwaves tossed aside at the last minute before their latest record...
- www.popmatters.com
2009-03-21
★★★★★
John Vesely's second album finds him supported by a full band this time around. And with the production help of Butch Walker and Danny Lohner, Secondhand Serenade sounds first rate for the Warped Tour tween or teen demographic. That's not to say that everything sounds original or unpolished. In fact "Like a Knife" sounds like something Angels & Airwaves tossed aside at the last minute before their latest record...
- www.popmatters.com
2008-08-03
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