Bristol Evening Post
September 2004

Wreckless Eric
Bungalow Hi (Southern Domestic)

*****
(five star rating)

Ever since he surfaced on the Stiff label with a series of punky hit singles, Wreckless Eric has bloody-mindedly disregarded what most people would consider the sensible route for a career in the pop industry.
This is the first album since the mid-90s to bear the Wreckless Eric name and it is a great reminder of just what a wayward genius he is.
In all honesty he still cannot really hold a tune and this is far too weird to be easy listening, but these partly autobiographical songs show that he has lost none of his skills as a wordsmith.
The humour, the bite and the passion are still there, as is his colourful sense of narrative and vivid imagery.
He wrote the songs, plays most of the instruments himself, he recorded it himself in a home studio, he has released it on his own label, and it is a triumph.
He is appearing live in Bristol at St Bonaventures on October 11; one not to miss.

Keith Clark