★★★★★
Sound: This is the first studio album from Sublime's new lineup; a solid release with tracks appealing to original fans as well as those with Rome's flair of originality. Sublime is well known for its creative mish-mashing of reggae, ska, punk, rock, hip-hop and even blues...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
2012-04-12
★★★★★
The "What?" ('90s nostalgia cash-in), "How?" (new singer Rome Ramirez), and "When?" (before fans wise up) are readily apparent on Yours Truly, the debut album from undead ska-punk outfit Sublime With Rome. But the most important, troubling question--"Why?"--is left unanswered. Maybe not for Sublime's Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson, who defied the explicitly stated wishes of their long-dead lead singer Bradley Nowell by recruiting Ramirez and carrying on under a modified moniker...
- www.avclub.com
2011-08-01
★★★★★
Can't we forget the comparisons to Brad Nowell's Sublime and judge this record on its own merits? Hell no we can't. Not after the surviving members underwent a months-long legal battle to retain the right to use that polarizing word. They wanted the name, and, to some degree, they got it. Now they get the baggage that comes with it. Yours Truly isn't a bad record, but it is a witless and anxiety-riddled appeal to the mainstream. The lead single, "Panic" is the edgiest song on the album...
- www.punknews.org
2011-08-01
★★★★★
Sublime's Bradley Nowell died of a drug overdose in 1996 just months before the breakthrough success of the band's self-titled album, robbing him of the chance to hear countless acoustic versions of Santeria performed by dreadlocked white boys on front porches...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2011-07-25
★★★★★
The late, great Brad Nowell rocked out ska and spat hip-hop verses like few white guys ever have--and then passed away in his prime. In death, the reggae-schooled bro became the meathead's Bob Marley. As Sublime With Rome proves, however, Nowell is irreplaceable...
- www.altpress.com
2011-07-18
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