Music Review

Wide Eyed and Ignorant

Reviewed by Doug Brod | Apr 28, 1995
EW's GRADE
A-

A House Wide Eyed and Ignorant (Radioactive) The catchiest choruses on the fourth album by these brassy Irish folk-popsters raise gooseflesh the way the Pogues and Violent Femmes could in their prime. And the deceptively simple odes to the awesomeness of love (''Curious,'' ''The Comedy Is Over'') don't merely cut to the bone, they mingle with the marrow. A- -Doug Brod

Originally posted Apr 28, 1995 Published in issue #272 Apr 28, 1995 Order article reprints

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