The album is pretty good and perhaps even a little bit progressive for Train but still woefully underwhelming by any other measure of quality.
Sun, Sun, Sun is a likeable enough album, but it leaves only the most faint of impressions.
So much of Dog Days sounds like a better-than-average Brooks & Dunn album.
Your Man may establish Turner as a star, but it doesn’t resolve the lingering questions about his artistic mettle.
I Remember Elvis has enough of a gimmick that it should introduce Jackson to a new generation of fans.
The Life Pursuit is not only a career-defining album for Belle and Sebastian, it’s the first essential album of 2006.
What redeems Tunstall is her voice and the overall punch of her guitars.
By the standards of the albums released by the Idol kids, The Real Thing fares scarcely worse than Ruben Studdard’s Soulful.
The album eschews the major problems of its predecessor while presenting an entirely new set of obstacles for Big & Rich to overcome.
The Moon Was Blue is a welcome return from an artist who, hopefully, plans to forge even farther ahead.
What keeps The Body Acoustic from being perhaps as essential as it could have been is the inconsistency of the guest stars.
As strong an album as it is, 12 Songs suggests that the follow-up could be even better.
Descended Like Vultures sounds foremost like the work of a proper band, rather than a DIY effort from one immensely talented guy.
It’s impossible not to view Timeless as anything more than enthusiastic, pitch-perfect karaoke.
Evans is going to have one hell of a greatest hits CD a few albums down the road, but Real Fine Place is less than essential.
Phair has waived her right to get off so easily by having been fearless and brilliant.
The emotions Allan confronts on his latest album are steeped in a nearly unfathomable complexity.
Tournament Of Hearts is ideally suited to be a left-field commercial success.
The U.S. version of the album has been altered only in the most minor, inconsequential ways.
Sheryl Crow remains a strong writer and singer, to the extent that Wildflower earns more than just a passing recommendation.