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  • Summary: The ninth album for the singer-songwriter was recorded in Spain.
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  • Record Label: Bedroom Classics
  • Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 5
  2. Negative: 0 out of 5
  1. Uncut
    Nov 11, 2011
    80
    He still produces beautiful albums of impeccable tone and fine songs. [Dec 2011, p.96]
  2. Q Magazine
    Nov 8, 2011
    80
    If last year's Spanish El Turista was Josh Rouse embracing his new European home with a vengeance, this time around he's deployed his resources with more subtlety and made a better record. [Nov. 2011, p. 140]
  3. Nov 8, 2011
    80
    Throughout, this is gorgeous; every tune swelters in a setting sun, his voice honeyed in harmonies. Essential.
  4. Nov 8, 2011
    60
    These songs never hit their mark as a result, aiming for the relaxed pitch of an afternoon siesta and often sounding closer to a snoozefest instead.
  5. Nov 8, 2011
    50
    Long Vacations isn't a bad album per se (Rouse is too gifted a songwriter to make a genuinely bad album), but it has the sound of an uninspired one.