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Dec 17, 2012Ultimately though, this feels most like the result of a major-label brainstorming session titled 'Which Of Our Artists Will Fill A Santa Suit Best This Year?'
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Dec 13, 2012Magic Moment nearly works, but not quite: further proof, should you need it, that making a Christmas record is tougher than you might think.
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Nov 7, 2012For folks who love Cee-Lo as a television personality and/or demand new renditions of songs we've all heard thousands of times over, Cee-Lo's Magic Moment exists. For everyone else... well, there's probably copies of Cee-Lo Green…Is the Soul Machine lying around somewhere out there.
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Nov 5, 2012Cee Lo openly parades his retro tastes, but his outrageous personality invests them with a contemporary edge.
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Oct 31, 2012The dark songster offers a bright disc full of pudding-rich arrangements and a number of worthy soul hits--just with a little more twinkly tambourine.
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Oct 31, 2012There is a lot of loud, full-bore belting. It's a little showboaty and on occasion his voice threatens to overpower the song itself.... Still, not a note of Magic Moment rings false.
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Oct 31, 2012Weirdly enough, this might be Green's most immediately satisfying album as a pure soul singer; throughout, he explores the huskiest confines of his lower and middle register, instead of relying on his typical nasal fireworks.
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Oct 31, 2012This is Christmas music that can be enjoyed by those who otherwise loathe it.
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Oct 31, 2012Magic Moment easily meets the primary requirement of any Christmas album, which is that it's a worthwhile addition to his fans' collections.