It must be said, the quality of Bananarama records seems to depend a lot on who's working with them. Here they're back with Swain and Jolley, the chaps who made "Shy Boy" the great single it was, and this is certainly their best single since then. Includes a great dub version and, for some inscrutable reason, lots of jokes about trucking and CB radio with the girls all dressed up in scruffy overalls and toting monkey wrenches. Can't see it catching on, somehow. (Dave Rimmer, Smash Hits, July 7, 1983)
It won't bother them a jot but I've always found them to have the flattest, dullest, least committed voices of anyone currently parading pop. "Cruel Summer" thuds unconvincingly away with a variety of some five notes to choose from and if they were singing for their lives, they'd never have been around to make the pesky record. (Paul Sexton, Record Mirror, July 2, 1983)
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