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Despite it missing the fire of his first record, it's a worthy piece of work.
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Taking no risks, "Nightcrawler" shows little growth and makes one wish for the morning after.
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Pete Yorn’s songs sound so damn good, it’s easy to assume they’re not smart.
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Nightcrawler is the remedy to the collective uncertainty cast by Day I Forgot’s giant shadow of mediocrity: it’s a “solid record” that highlights Yorn’s potential as a songwriter and craftsman, underplays many of his weaknesses, and firmly situates him within the category of Rock Troubadours Who Are Still Worth Paying Attention To.
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Nightcrawler stretches Yorn’s limits as an artist and crosses the line in a few places.
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Entertainment WeeklyYorn and his lazy-day delivery... manage to hop between dance pop and lovely synth ballads with surprising ease. [8 Sep 2006, p.159]
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Nightcrawler is essentially a sequence of fourteen overproduced songs that bleed into one another. Mind you these are not bad songs... But there is an overwhelming feeling that he is merely going through the motions.
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MagnetHe pushes himself into unfamiliar, often sonically jarring new terrain. [#73, p.112]
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Paste MagazineMore daring and challenging than anything he's done up to now. [Sep 2006, p.75]
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The harmonies are more sophisticated, the sounds more complex, the music more fully realized.
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The album lacks the central focus that defined Yorn's earlier work, at times feeling like a grab-bag of style and sound.
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Rolling StonePretty though they are, Nightcrawler's hazy songs have a slack sound and little personality. [7 Sep 2006, p.106]
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It's the first album on which the distinctive, likeable laziness of his vocal style seems to have seeped into the production.
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SpinThe album's guitar- and keyboard-heavy production obscures some of his folky Britpop melodies, but it shows off his Bruuuce heart in a big way. [Oct 2006, p.105]
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As with his debut, Yorn gets the highlights out of the way by the halfway mark. The rest is a bit of a coast, though it's a pleasant bit of coasting.
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Under The RadarThis vapid, vacuous collection of worthless songs... contains so little in the way of either authentic moments or accessible melodies that it is... purely insufferable. [#15]
User score distribution:
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Positive: 23 out of 26
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Mixed: 3 out of 26
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Negative: 0 out of 26
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jasoneJan 31, 2007grows on you. Undercover is an instant hit.
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VanneONov 27, 2006best album yet
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HarryCOct 1, 2006