The Style Council: Cafe Bleu (Polydor)
Hector Cook, NME, 17 March 1984
ME AND my ever-changing moods. One minute I hear 'Strength Of Your Nature' and think Paul Weller's cracked it, next I'm hearing some snippet of Blue Note clone-work and I can't fathom what he wants or expects out of such faceless music...
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