Despite the Corrs' bona fide Irish-folk-family credentials (just like Clannad's), it
wouldn't be unfair to call them the Carpenters with tin whistles. That's not necessarily a
bad thing, but on this second album, the folk elements are generally welded to standard,
often tedious pop-rock structures as a careless sort of afterthought. Andrea Corr has an
instantly appealing voice, and when it and its accompanying homebred harmonies are applied
to compelling material like "So Young," "Never Loved You Anyway" and
two songs on which the folk-meets-pop blend actually works ("No Good for Me" and
a mournful cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Dreams"), everything clicks. But too often
the group's Corr competencies are undermined by bland material, in spite of or (more
likely) thanks to a mob of hired-gun producers and song doctors.
Ken Barnes