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. WillFrank
    Nov 27, 2010
    10
    It's truely difficult to find a bad song in this fantastic album. Guster spent four years perfecting this album and it shows. Easy Wonderful is an absolutely "Wonderful" album.
  2. EJA
    Nov 20, 2010
    7
    Its Guster and it is good, but I was likin' the more serious and layered Ganging up on the Sun. This sounds like a louder Lost and Gone and forever. Its a little to "Im hitting my mid 30's and I love my kids" dad music which I guess is where they are.
  3. a_1
    Nov 16, 2010
    10
    Layered, sweet and warm. Guster's latest instalment is everything that could be expected from this amazing group. It's novel but familiar a little like a new home style dessert. It presents with clear direction and identity. Time was taken and the scaffolding on the tracking has clearly bee carefully considered. I found the album truly engaging from go to wo. Waves of melodic guitars ladenLayered, sweet and warm. Guster's latest instalment is everything that could be expected from this amazing group. It's novel but familiar a little like a new home style dessert. It presents with clear direction and identity. Time was taken and the scaffolding on the tracking has clearly bee carefully considered. I found the album truly engaging from go to wo. Waves of melodic guitars laden with breath taking peaks, deep valleys and subtle transitions are woven gracefully around and through an equally impressive vocal showcase. Almost all instrumentation compliments, resolves or creates anticipation. These guys just get it and they do it better than anyone. Well worth the wait.… Collapse
  4. 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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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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