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Tears for Fears: The Seeds Of Love (PolyGram) ****

Michael Azerrad, Rolling Stone, 2 November 1989

AFTER THE release of Tears For Fears' mammoth-selling second album, Songs From the Big Chair, in 1985, an English music paper remarked, "It'll soon be respectable to like Tears for Fears." Sure enough, the band has returned with a mature, musically sophisticated album that's bound to impress even the most doubting of Thomases.

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