Man On Mir Universal / Island
27 September 2000 Stephen Robinson
Accomplished power-pop that sweeps and soars, aided by assured vocals and an excellent production job by Crowded House's Nick Seymour. Personally I couldn't make head nor tail of the lyric (butterflies, space, girls who drive cars???), but it seduces anyway.
White Water Song Universal / Island
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And so the Irish Invasion picks up pace, as Kildare's BellX1 spring from the traps. More robust than The Thrills, closer to the finished article than The Basement, BellX1 have been four years honing their sound. This is rock with gusto and drive and confidence and intent. Radiohead as Radiohead should sound now. It puts down a brave marker.
Eve, The Apple Of My Eye Universal / Island
27 June 2004 Colm O'Hare
Bell X1’s transformation into one of the big bands is already in process, with only an all-conquering run of festival appearances left to complete the picture.. As such, the release of another single from Music In Mouth is probably something of an afterthought but this is still an effortlessly lovely ballad. More interestingly, you have to wonder that if Snow Patrol could break so spectacularly across the water, is a similar fate for this lot such an unlikely prospect? Not at all.