Make A Move is Gavin DeGraw's fifth studio album. Just like on predecessor Sweeter, producer Ryan Tedder had a big finger in the pie. The OneRepublic frontman made Sweeter more bombastic and grand and that's also the case on Make A Move, of which Everything Will Change and Need are the most successful examples. What is striking about the album is that all songs were written with Martin Johnson,
… Butch Walker and Kevin Rudolf, among others, something that DeGraw was not to love on his first albums. Musically not much has changed compared to Sweeter and the American plays it safe. Lyrically, there is a striking change to be heard. Where DeGraw used to scatter romantic love songs, this time he seems to confess that things have not gone smoothly for him on a personal level in recent years. Most of the songs are about broken hearts or relationships that are about to burst. (BvdV)more
