Review of Into Your Arms
From NME October 1993
Cracking good single of the week.
It doesn't matter how willing Evan is to let people know about the nasty things that have passed through his body. As long as he continues to make records like this, he will remain to a generation the hazy hippy, faded-denim, brother/boyfriend that they never had.
'Into Your Arms' is definitely more slack than crack, spiralling up from a steady strum into a streamlined country rock sing-along, with solos kicking up a cloud of dust and the same comforting tenderness of tone that 'It's A Shame...' had. Written by Robyn St Clare, the Lemonheads previously demoed this on the 'Mrs Robinson' single, but now with a full soft-rock treatment, it stands along as a lovely, pretension-free, mini-classic. Their trudge through the highlands and hard drizzles of rock has given Evan & Co this weatherbeaten edge which allows them to take on all sorts of pop bunkum and make it good. So the acoustic extras - covers of Cole Porter's wry 'Miss Otis Regrets', Michael Stone's kiddy song 'Little Black Egg' and Buddy Holly's 'Learning The Game' - are all appealing curios after the manner of the last album's 'Frank Mills'.
All the fire and rain you could want from the man who is frighteningly close to becoming the James Taylor of the '90s.