Summary:
Gavin DeGraw is a pop-soul smoothie, but his latest album is a dreary, bluesy mess.

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(EW.com) -- You know that part in this pop-soul smoothie's songs where the verse launches skyward into the chorus, Gavin DeGraw makes that I'm-pounding-these-piano-keys-so-hard! face, and a bajillion turtle doves explode from a rooftop somewhere? Well, there's a half-dozen good ones on his fourth full-length "Sweeter." 'Grey's,' 'HIMYM': Fresh TV spoilers! Too bad the other half's weighed down by painfully mopey, girl-done-left-me blues. ''Everybody hurts,'' DeGraw sighs. Dude, you're telling us? B- . See full article at EW.com. CLICK HERE to Try 2 RISK FREE issues of Entertainment Weekly . © 2011 Entertainment Weekly and Time Inc. All rights reserved.