Cloudcuckooland Review, Feb 1990

Paul Davies, Q, Feb 1990.
From the book “Encyclopedia of Albums”.

Liverpudlian Ian Broudie had been at the centre of Merseyside music for a decade, firstly as guitarist and songwriter with Big In Japan and later of Echo and the Bunneymen before this, his first “solo” album albeit under a group name. It emerged on the Ghetto label before being picked up by Virgin and was released by MCA in the States.
“Broudie’s voice drifts angelically through the LP counterpointed by a collection of neat and massively humable songs…the finest cut is the beautiful and quietly despairing ballad Bound In A Nutshell, which mourns the disenfranchised and put-upon city of Liverpool…”