“Gavin DeGraw will never be cool. Like John Mayer and Jason Mraz, he’s a nice-looking white dude with music-school chops and mainstream tastes; his songs are too well-made, too catchy, too unapologetically pop-rock to appeal to tastemakers. And what’s wrong with that? The 10 songs on Sweeter, DeGraw’s fourth album, are taut, efficient and hook-packed, […]”
