Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday (Korova)

Having missed the summer of love by a few years, the polka-dot girls try and take us into a winter of whimsy with their own sweet and sour brand of '80s psychedelia. How nice. (Adrian Jones, No 1, November 10, 1984)

This begins, if I'm not mistaken, with a snatch of something famous by the composer Sibelius, and then ventures into a wistful melody, sung in brittle harmonies which touches the heart. One of the few records this week which isn't trying to sound like something else. (Neil Tennant, Smash Hits, November 5, 1984)

After their impressive first outing "Trees And Flowers", this Scottish duo waltz back into the psychedelic drive-in with a jaunty little tale of love and loneliness that tastes of saccharine flavoured popcorn and steaming Kia-Ora. More sexy than Everything But The Girl, more cosmic than the 13th Floor Elevators and showing that they haven't put all their strawberries in one basket. (Dylan Jones, Record Mirror, October 20, 1984)