Freur - Matters Of The Heart (CBS)

If your name looks like a worm and is pronounced like the sound of someone being a little unwell ("freur"), you should have no chance, but this is a suede-skinned, juicy peach of a record. A blissfully romantic song, graced by an arresting vocal and an arrangement that hugs like loving arms at a windy bus-stop. The best electro-ballad since "Vienna". (Mark Steels, Smash Hits, June 9, 1983)

Those silly sods from Splottland are back. once more the sub-Sylvian drone erodes my little brain cells. (Robin Smith, Record Mirror, June 18, 1983)

Freur - Runaway (CBS)

The boys with the silly rune for a name have an immaculately produced single but no real song to hang it on. It's just a riff padded out with none of the flair of their "Doot Doot" hit. (Mike Gardner, Record Mirror, September 3, 1983)

So they've finally abandoned the profoundly dumb ploy of being The Band With A Squiggle Instead Of A Name. Now maybe a few people will listen to their music instead of dismissing them out of hand (as I previously did). They're not a bad group in a mannered kind of way and this has a strong folksy kind of tune. But their haircuts are an offence against decent folk everywhere. (David Hepworth, Smash Hits, September 15, 1983)