04-29-1989 / New Musical Express / Discography - The Pastels, p.54

The Pastels new album arrives in May. In celebration of the fact Stephen Pastel was requested to utter a few words as a discographical lead-in, and obliged with the following :
"As far as the new album's concerned, people who are familiar with our stuff will be pleased to learn that we're still musical retards. I must admit though, that it's a bit darker than some of the other things we've done. The record was made with the help of most of the same people I've worked with over the years. Eugene from The Vaselines makes an appearence on it. He was with the band for about a year and his playing only served to make us feel even more like incompetents. But our association ended after one gig during wich he got completely plastered and rocked out of time right up to the moment he eventually fell off the stage.
"We're with Chapter 22 now. We did have a good relationship with Creation but the problem was that Alan McGee always wanted confrontation with the record business and that wasn't what we were into. Then came Glass, who were nice people but a bit slow at paying royalties (Glass were one of the labels who suffered because their records were distributed through the ill-fated Red Rhino). Next came a long period during which we just twiddled our thumbs. It was very difficult because we recorded most of the new album last summer and were sat there wondering if it was ever going to come out. Thankfully we were able to record some additional tracks this year.
"The first single, Baby You're Just You, is out this month and the completed album should be in the shops during early May. You know, when we started and Jonathan Richamn was our guiding light, all we wanted to do was to make honest records. And maybe we've fallen short of our aims but the new album is easliy the best record we've come up with to date."