“Paste Pick: Rid of myth and drama, the Philadelphia musician deals only in absurdly bleak levels of directness, no matter how painful. And his conciseness is admirable: there’s not an ounce of fat on his tremendous Dead Oceans debut.”
“The Philadelphia songwriter’s Dead Oceans debut is a delicate, open-hearted ode to smallness, traveling great emotional distances in short spaces.”
“Arriving 20 years after his first MySpace tunes, the singer/songwriter makes his full-length label debut with 14 short, disarmingly bittersweet songs.”
“Greg Mendez offers respite for frayed attention spans with Beauty Land”