★★★★★
Wish I could claim this millionaire Grammy-rock was totally pleasureless, but professionalism is rarely that neat. The fattest of all studio bands is almost as hooky as Shoes or the Ramones, and their production excesses at times betray verve, delight, even (though I must be mistaken) a sense of humor...
- www.robertchristgau.com
2009-07-10
★★★★★
Like most of the material on its predecessors, the third album by this team of Los Angeles supersessionmen is all pomp and no circumstance. Toto's 1978 hit, "Hold the Line," at least had an engaging chorus and pounding piano triplets to recommend it. Now the bloat is everywhere. Seemingly shoveled into the eight overwrought tunes on Turn Back, the band's homogenized, AOR blend of heavy-metal thunder, art-rock grandeur and pop-music bromide merely sounds like a load of post-Boston blather...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
The big concern for longtime fans with a Toto show filmed in 2013 is the Bobby Kimball factor; the band's original (and some would say best) lead vocalist was not on hand for this show that coincided with the band's 35th anniversary. Then again, neither were some of the other original members (Jeff Porcaro has passed away and Mike Porcaro has Lou Gehrig 's disease) but any concern over the line-up can be quickly swept aside as the show plays out...
- www.antimusic.com
2014-07-21