Album reviews – Loving Tongues Album reviews – Loving Tongues The second album comes with almost as many sublime hooks as the debut Favours and a richer more sympathetic production. Loving Tongues isn’t a bad title for an album from a band as loving of fine songs and fine melodies as Let’s Planet.
Sunday Times, November 1993
Let’s Planet songs are increasingly beginning to have distinctive shapes and sounds of their own. Loving Tongues is worth a lick. (3½)
New Zealand Herald, December 1993
Classic 60s-tinged pop songs
on a more confident and assured record. ****
Evening Post, December 1993
… crisp, shiny and catchy
again. Highly recommended. ****
Sunday Star, December 1993
This is a highly creditable album with strong and melodic material.
Timaru Herald, January 1994
Loving Tongues covers a wide range of emotions and textures with style and intelligence. If only all local albums were this good.
Rip It Up, January 1994
Loving Tongues is a real charmer full of chiming guitars and shimmering pop tunes. Now it’s merely a matter of convincing everyone that the "ex" bit doesn’t stand for past associations anymore, but for "excellent". They are.
More, February 1994
Loving Tongues is full of big melodies, paradise-lost lyrics and polished musicianship.
Evening Standard, April 1994
This band has inherited the Go-Betweens’ seemingly effortless knack of coming up with an almost endless supply of immaculately crafted pop songs, where deceptively straightforward structures conceal an enormous depth of ingenuity, insight, and feeling. Didn’t spot this CD in the many ‘best of 1993’ listing recently? Too bad, as Arm and a Leg and As Far As We Go are two heavenly pop hits that should have been.
Audio & Video, April 1994