Memory Man will be one of the strongest efforts released in 2007.  Full text...

This album is worth the time. At first glance, it's basically more of the same elegantly crafted and poignant rock tunage built around gentle piano strokes and Matt Hales' breathy Thom Yorke-ish croon, which is able to convey as much emotion as anything else he does.  Full text...

Memory Man is filled with everything an admirer would expect: the minor falls, the major lifts and the consoling, grandiose passion that bridges the gap between Adult Alternative format junkies, soft rock soccer moms, and reticent hipsters behind dark-rimmed glasses.  Full text...

Memory Man, for all its (intended?) lyrical vagueness and enigmatic polish, is a collection of finely-constructed, meandering pop songs. It seems to pick up where the previous album left off-or does it?  Full text...

A place where girls are cast as fairy-tale heroines, boys are full of feelings, and pianos can totally (but gently!) rock out.  Full text...

The lightness and clarity that once set Hales apart is here squashed by overwrought arrangements of lesser melodies that replace pop classicism with conventional rock bluster.  Full text...