Wendy and Lisa: Fruit at the Bottom (Columbia) ** 1/2
Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 15 June 1989
ON THEIR 1987 debut album, Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman seemed to be bending over backward not to sound like Prince, whose band they had just left.
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