ROLLING STONE reviewer James Hunter gave "Into the Sun" 3-1/2 stars out of 4.

Hunter says in part, "Lennon creates a zippy, laid-back, smart-as-shit boho paradise informed by both uptown comfort and downtown adventure. He accomplishes all this in a sweet voice that is almost Brazilian in it sconfident naturalness and flexibility. It's an unassuming, lived-in kind of voice, and on Into the Sun it works.

"Into the Sun isn't about sound or narrative or -remarkably, these days - other records; it's about the crumbling of pop categories at the end of a century so rich in musical options that stylistic tightfistedness just seems silly. And working with producer Yuka Honda, of Cibo Matto, and a host of resourceful and eclectic New York musicians, Lennon is up to proving this point."