"A slice of the Nouveau Summery Pop scene pie which we invented about four minutes ago, somewhere around the point where Dodgy split up and the sun came out, without suggesting for a moment that the two incidents are at all connected. Straw, who are very clever chaps who use smartypants words like 'eclectic' and have a keyboard player called Duck and effects which are a bit ELO. The good thing is that this record is zingingly radio-friendly." |