“Perry Blake’s third album is named after the place of hope and fantasy. He and Italian producer Marco Sabiu arrive at a classy, smooth set of songs for Blake’s most realized style and sound yet. California finds Blake at ease with himself as a singer and as a songwriter; the “freeness” of each song is impressionable, as Blake surrounds himself in his own modern pop world. Blake allows his own genre-blending sound to fully take shape without too much production. He and Sabiu have redefined conventional pop music to suit themselves, carefully crafting an album suited for sophisti-pop fans.” - MacKenzie Wilson, AllMusic