Easy Wonderful
by Guster
  • Record Label: Republic
  • Release Date: Oct 5, 2010
User Score
8.5

Universal acclaim- based on 10 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. PaulRice
    Nov 1, 2010
    6
    On its best tracks, such as Architects + Engineers and Stay With Me Jesus, Guster do what they do best, giant choruses with interesting, catchy instrumental hooks. It's all very digestable, but the second half of the album sags a little in quality; nothing really pops, and the last track sounds confusingly like The Killers.

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#94 Best Album of 2010

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Metascore
81

Universal acclaim - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. PopMatters
    Jan 11, 2011
    80
    With Easy Wonderful, Guster has attained that perfect pop rock sound, yet hasn't abandoned its roots as an acoustic trio.
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  2. Billboard.com
    Oct 22, 2010
    79
    After 15 years of recording together, the members of Guster deliver their poppiest, most cohesive effort with Easy Wonderful.
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  3. Boston Globe
    70
    The Tufts-bred pop rock quartet is still interested in layering varied instrumentation- banjos and synthesizers, warped electric guitars and clanging bells--to achieve different textures, Easy just feels a bit cleaner and less symphonically ambitious. But that doesn't mean it's less diverse.
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