PETE YORN - Nightcrawler Review

Pete Yorn is finally carving out a sound that's uniquely him; no more Ryan Adams comparisons are necessary, for the Jersey-born singer/songwriter has written some of the most complex songs of his career to date with Nightcrawler. While the title might suggest something a bit more dark and dramatic, Yorn embraces the warmer sound of his previous work to create a rich, picturesque batch of songs....full text Everyone I have talked to in the past week while thinking about this album, including members of the CMG staff, has had the exact same response: “New album? No kidding. You know, I genuinely liked Musicforthemorningafter…” The need to apologize for liking Pete Yorn (and also kind of forgetting he existed) is certainly due to his second album, which added whole new meanings to the word “bland,” but I suspect it is also due to the fact that this guy has been mainstream as hell from the word “go.”...full text The most common, laziest read on Pete Yorn is that he's a poor man's Ryan Adams, a comparison drawn from the singer-songwriter's use of some traditional country instrumentation in the granola rock of his 2001 debut, Musicforthemorningafter....full text