Crawdaddy | |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | the Darling Buds |
Cover: | Darlingbudscrawdaddy.jpg |
Released: | 1990 |
Recorded: | Greenhouse Studios/The Justice Rooms/The Windings Great Linford Manor |
Genre: | Pop punk, pop, rock |
Length: | 42:13 |
Label: | Epic 4670122 |
Producer: | Stephen Street |
Prev Title: | Shame On You (The Native Years) |
Prev Year: | 1990 |
Next Title: | Erotica |
Next Year: | 1992 |
Crawdaddy is an album by the British band the Darling Buds.[1] [2] It was released on Epic Records in 1990 and contains the singles "Tiny Machine" and "Crystal Clear". The band supported the album by touring with Wire Train.[3]
The album was produced by Stephen Street.[4] Jimmy Hughes joined on drums.[5]
Trouser Press wrote: "Some now-tired Blondie-isms remain, but this fine sophomore effort is mostly a forward-looking, groove-heavy delight."[6] The Tampa Bay Times deemed Crawdaddy "full of swirly, danceable melodies and infectious drumbeats."[7] The Record labeled Crawdaddy "an enticing mix of melodic pop enhanced with a hint of hard-driving guitar rock."[8]
Spin called the album "guitar-driven girl pop at its very finest."[9] The Boston Globe considered it "a terse pop-punk manifesto that conveys love's conflicting impulses in an ingratiating, semi-complex, pop context."[10] The Los Angeles Times wrote that the Darling Buds "thicken the pop with dense, twisted textures, lending [the album] an off-center quality."[11]
All songs written by Harley Farr and Andrea Lewis