Fuse

"It's certain that Urban will do well by Fuse. It'll generate some hits, it won't confuse any of his listeners, and it might help fit some of his songs into non-country radio formats. It'll match up nicely with his higher profile on American Idol, too, raising his overall name recognition perhaps. But is it taking him new places, lighting new fuses, expanding his horizons? To me it sounds more like a closed room than an open one".

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"If ever a contemporary country record was strategically created to crossover, this is it. Recorded in California and Nashville, Urban employed a slew of co-producers, songwriters, and co-writers. The set's clever first single, "Little Bit Of Everything" with its punchy handclaps, hip hop rhythms and pulsing synth, underscores his banjo and stinging guitar; his voice accents the hook and rings clear above it all ... For all the piecemeal recording, technological obsession and sheer ambition on the Fuse, Urban manages to fashion it all into a (mostly) working whole and maintain his identity as a contemporary country artist, even as he reaches for the mainstream pop fences".

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