Blog: PopMatters

Well-crafted, short album with an obvious high point in the pretty piano ballad "Into Bedrooms", which could easily pass for the best song Coldplay never wrote. I have to wonder what it must have been like to have been a music reviewer in the early '80s and be the first to receive an EP called Chronic Town. It must have been a sense of awesome discovery, a feeling that you'd stumbled onto something great, something that made you feel very special; knowing that you had a potential game changer in your hands, even if some of those early reviews [...]