I need a job - so I can buy more auto-tune

"Vocals are the selling point - they're referenced in the album title, after all - and Auto-Tune provides the distinctive, potent ingredient in the stew. Who knows why Swamp Dogg is drawn to the vocal pitch correction software ... But where 'Love, Loss, and Auto-Tune' (2018) could be audacious, 'I Need a Job' is often conventional. Despite the prevalence of the effect, 'I Need a Job' largely adheres to the rules of traditional R&B; in fact, it's one of the straightest sets of songs Swamp Dogg has released. Having dampened his perversity, he offers few twists on genre tropes and winds up with a set of cheating and sex songs that feel merely reassuring in their familiarity. No wonder Willie Clayton and Guitar Shorty seem right at home; this is the kind of music they make".

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"More than half a century since [Little Jerry Williams] morphed into Swamp Dogg with 1970's cult psych-soul classic 'Total Destruction To Your Mind' (...), he's still sounding as vibrant as ever, and 'I Need A Job..' is a glorious slice of skin-tight '70s funk and R&B with echoes of Van Morrison, Boz Scaggs and Johnny Guitar Watson. The continuing obsession with Auto-Tuning his vocals adds a typically quirky twist, but frankly he may sound better without it".