★★★★★
Citing the use of a Rhodes, a Clavinova, and, above all else, a Moog, Wakey!Wakey!'s front-man Mike Grubbs appears to have all the piano patter of Rufus Wainwright synthed-up by Owl City which, thankfully, is where the latter's particular similarity ends. There's certainly no vomit-inducing lyrics about unicorns shitting golden-syrup pancakes on this record. What you have instead with Almost Everything.....
- www.themusicfix.co.uk
2011-07-25
★★★★★
Wakey Wakey? Me? I knew nothing about 'em besides secretly loving the band name. Then a family friend I share a weird love of music with shared her excitement at seeing them in concert a few weeks back. She had a smile from ear to fucking ear, she was so excited...
- www.syffal.com
2011-06-06
★★★★★
Managing to recover from my initial poor first impression based on their terrible name, I found loads to enjoy with Wakey!Wakey! As an album "Almost Everything I Wish I'd Said The Last Time I Saw You" strikes the right balance between earnest, uplifting Pop, danceable keyboards and general weirdness. It's an unashamedly Poppy offering but with enough Dance, Classical, Hip Hop and Psychedelic elements to keep things fresh and often quite exciting...
- hangout.altsounds.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Sometimes you just have to hear an album because it has a great title. Wakey!Wakey!'s album Almost Everything I Wish I'd Said the Last Time I Saw You... is one of those albums. That title has just the right amount of regret and pathos to be intriguing and utterly human; there is nobody on this earth who hasn't had a list of things they should have said at one point. As it turns out, the music on the album isn't half bad either. Mike Grubbs is the driving force behind Wakey!Wakey...
- www.popmatters.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
We've come a long way from Jeremy Jordan. Almost Everything... might be the second full-length album from Michael Grubbs, aka Wakey!Wakey!, but the singer and pianist is probably best known for his role as a singing bartender on the moody teen soap opera One Tree Hill. While it's not surprising that the songs on this sophomore record sound just right for an afternoon on the banks of Dawson's Creek, it is slightly unexpected that Grubbs' tunes are this addictive...
- www.filter-mag.com
2010-04-15
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