Dream Harder

Rolling Stone (7/8/93, p.112) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...[leader Mike] Scott revels in ecstatic awakenings and epiphanies closely related to images revolving around new relationships, marriage and birth...has a gift for matching haunting melodic fragments to the well-turned phrase..."
Q Magazine (7/93, p.96) - 3 Stars - Good - "...a 13-track big dipper ride through God, change, Ireland, tablas, Glastonbury, Scotland, sitars, Greek mythology, corn circles, love, death, pan-pipes, poetry, stone circles, Jimi Hendrix, New York, kitchen sink guitars and all manner of oddball, offbeat ideas...veers maniacally from the lovable to the laughable..."
Melody Maker (1/1/94, p.77) - Ranked #38 in Melody Maker's list of the `Albums Of The Year' for 1993.
Melody Maker (5/29/93, p.33) - "...This is the album Waterboys fans have waited nearly eight years for...."
New Musical Express (5/29/93, p.31) - 8 - Excellent - "...DREAM HARDER is some party--the kind of trip that reminds you how every Waterboys record should have the legend `To Be Continued...' scratched into the run-off groove...."