"The definitive soundtrack to hope in adversity. Testament that all change in life comes about through pain. A record that dares to grapple with the big theme of our essential loneliness."
"Alison Moyet and Vince Clarke didn't even like each other when they made this record. It's an unspeakably beautiful, tender and angry synth landscape. Charmingly naive and THAT voice, WOW!!"
"Naughty and nice noodling synths and desperately erotic confessional electro-pop. Pioneers of synth perve. The track 'Youth' so poignantly tells of the beauty and decay of worldly hope."
"Aunty Elton's mid-80's comeback. Fabulously atmospheric and bittersweetly melancholic. Stories that champion the human heart when faced with adversity."
"Unbelievably beautiful collection of heartfelt sentiment. Stories about the wonderment and fleeting nature of young love and about the newness of things. Sensual, feelgood, pastoral and very English."
