release date: Feb. 20, 1991
format: cd (CRESCD085)
[album rate: 4 / 5] [3,75]
producer: My Bloody Valentine
label: Creation Records - nationality: Ireland
Track highlights: 1. "To Here Knows When" (4 / 5) - 2. "Swallow" (5 / 5) - 3. "Honey Power" (4 / 5) - 4. "Moon Song"
4 track ep with one track from the forthcoming album Loveless to be released in November.
It's quite evidently much closer in style to the bands coming second full-length album than the debut Isn't Anything album from '88. The multi-layered dynamics are already here, but the production sound is somewhat murkier than what would succeed. Anyway, this is a very fine ep and the three tracks you won't find on Loveless could easily have been included on that without lowering the quality or the status of that album. "Swallow" has a beautiful ethereal touch to it, which makes me think of Lush cloned with Cocteau Twins, and "Honey Power" sounds much like the first drawing to the great opening track "Only Shallow" on Loveless, but as is the case with this song, all tracks generally lack the extra dimension of clever production.
[ allmusic.com 4,5 / 5 stars ]
