England Made Me

Rolling Stone (8/19/99, p.115) - 3 1/2 stars out of 5 - "...skeletal yet dramatic orchestrations....[BBR] are totally of their time...insisting on composure and clarity..."
Spin (9/99, p.194) - 8 out of 10 - "...worthy of a true punk....it's terrorism: the kind of record you wouldn't look at twice while it boards the flight, a forgettable packet under its arm. Later: a girl singing in the wreckage."
Q Magazine (12/00, p.142) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Wry tunes about abduction, domestic unease and dreary weekends. It's a hoot...with the delivery consistently deadpan..."

CMJ (7/5/99, p.26) - "...provides the perfect soundtrack to those mornings when you're moping around the kitchen wondering what the hell went wrong the night before....comes off like the Velvet Underground giving the Cardigans music lessons in Nick Cave's basement."
Alternative Press (9/99, pp.92-3) - 3 out of 5 - "...as deceptively anti-social as you could wish, and as deceptively melodic as well..."
Magnet (8-9/99, p.68) - "...a message of ultimate sociological pathos [for] the masses....a difficult little tirade of underspoken derision..."