ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

CRUSHED BY THE WHEELS OF INDUSTRY
from SOUNDS SEPT 3rd 1983

After the sickeningly self absorbed dross of 'COME LIVE WITH ME', this is about as fresh faced as you're likely to get with a team as calculating as GREGORY/MARSH/WARE Enterprises Inc. But the latest model to roll off the BEF production line is a refreshingly straight forward analysis of the 'cog in machine' syndrome that employs (on the extended dance mix) a profitable collision of Test Dept. and present day Cabs. And yet there is still the feeling of premedited excitement that makes a HEAVEN 17 record sound so false. Perhaps Ersatz would be the word to use.

Review by BILL BLACK.