Metascore
72

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 19
  2. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. Starsailor are the U.K. equivalent of the Goo Goo Dolls.... You may well like Love Is Here, but it could take a while before you admit it to yourself.
  2. 'Love Is Here' - expansively, expensively produced, lavish yet aspiring to understatement (if such a contradiction can be accepted) and containing some affecting songs - is a pretty good record.
  3. Mojo
    60
    Love Is Here is juvenalia -- persuasive, and suggesting greatness should the band have the courage (or the license) to cut loose. [Nov 2001]
  4. Love Is Here radiates as-yet-unfulfilled potential, like the work of a band going through the motions to get its foot in the door.
  5. Blender
    60
    If there's a fault here, it's in the slightly hand-wringing lyrics, which, of not overwrought, are certainly pretty darned wrought. [#4, p.123]
  6. Love Is Here isn't bad, and its prospect for radio play is far more appealing than, say, Train. The four just don't have the depth of their admitted influences.
  7. The worst mistake you can make is to write off this band as just another sappy, sentimental Brit-pop effort, because you'd miss out on supreme moments of emotional clarity that far outweigh the muddier, more overwrought mistakes.
  8. Although much of the record re-verses and re-crafts melodies in the same vein, there are a few gems that can't be missed.
User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 16 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 16
  2. Negative: 2 out of 16
  1. TiagoD.
    Jan 6, 2008
    10
    Just awesome.
  2. mwaha
    Oct 22, 2005
    10
    Incredible, amazing, fantastic. Every song is a journey of considerable depth and intensity
  3. edt
    May 11, 2005
    10
    favourite album