This album is the follow up to Colbie Caillat's earlier release of the Gypsy Heart EP. (You can see my review of it here.) In this album, she's taken a very pop direction, working with people such as the producer Babyface, Toby Gad, Johan Carlsson (a member of the Sweedish alternative group Carolina Liar) and Max Martin (Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry). Surprisingly, there was also a cowrite with Liz Rose (cowriter of You Belong With Me and Tim McGraw by Taylor Swift) on the album, "Never Getting Over You". There are a few standouts on the second half of the album, namely "Land Called Far Away" and "Never Getting Over You". Other than that, the rest of the tracks are either decent but overly repetitive or just not good at all. 
In general, I'd really only recommend four tracks on this album: Never Getting Over You, Land Called Far Away, Try and Never Gonna Let You Down. There are two tracks that are honestly to me not even worth a listen: Nice Guys (yup, we totally need more songs that are subtle-y misogynistic and guilt women into getting in relationships with guys who feel entitled to them) and Just Like That (way, way, way, way, way repetitive....see, that way got old fast!) Break Free, Bigger Love, and Floodgates are all worth a listen, but get a little boring. 
Hopefully, the popularity of Try and the positive comments many reviewers are making about Never Getting Over You will make Colbie Caillat's label realize they made a big mistake pushing her towards pop. It's not that the album was so bad overall — it's just that she could've done so much better. 7/10. 

[Read the review of the full album here] Frankly, one of my least favorite things in the music industry is label pressure on artists. If an artist is making good music that their fans like, then don't mess around with what's working. All of You peaked at #6 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart — I think that's quite enough success, commercially as well as in other manners.
This EP was a complete surprise release. A single, Hold On, was released in November 2013, but nothing was heard about Caillat's new album. The sound of Hold On should've been enough of a warning for the new direction of Caillat's next release, but I was still somewhat blindsided.

This post is a new idea of mine - giving readers of the blog an idea of the kind of singles that are coming out from various artists and my opinions on them. Since a lot of singles get released, I decided to compile them all into a once-monthly post.