Swing Out Sister - Breakout (Mercury)

Swing, hard funk and be-bop are the order of the day for SOS, a band who like Curiosity Killed The Cat, seem destined to spend their career in a fantasy world of glossy black and white photographs and high class posters. Signed in the afterglow of that rush of blood that accompanied the much vaunted new jazz era, Swing Out Sister will only convince me when they sweat themselves out of a trend and into a real trance. 2/5 (Max Bell, No 1, October 18, 1986)

I'll confess that I'd expected some routine jazz exercise from the Soho/St Martins clique, but I must stand corrected. It's breezy, buoyant, and it's tasteful; this is indeed a good record. (Stuart Bailie, Record Mirror, October 18, 1986)