Christgau Consumer Guide
Given the putrefaction potential of the straightforwardly literary romanticism Roddy Frame affects, it’s amazing he did so brilliantly with it even once. In fact, it’s fairly amazing that second time out he gets away with it three songs worth—three songs whose verbal lyricism sharpens the consistently winsome music, which is the kind of unlikely feat critics expect of straightforwardly literary types.
January 1, 1985