Sarah 623:
Heavenly
The Decline And Fall Of Heavenly

'Sacremento' is a freewheeling instrumental in 'Time Is Tight' vein, and at least 'Skipjack' and the chirpy 'Sperm Meets Egg, So What?' show that Amelia Fletcher now sees there are more to relationships than giddy schoolgirl crushes - but these are hardly bold steps forward. (6)

Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 22nd October 1994.

Of all the bands with kindergarten names and naff songs about lemonade, one band stood head and shoulders above all the others in their unrelenting quest to musically document all that is twee. It was Amelia's old band, Talulah Gosh, and some eight years later her music is still chained to the same bowl of brightly coloured vomit.

"The Decline And Fall Of..." is Heavenly's degeneration into the first Cutie MOR band. It had to happen. The only halfway redeeming quality in Talulah Gosh and the earliest incarnation of Heavenly was a whoosing enthusiasm that was, um, well, kinda infectious. But that enthusiasm has disappeared, leaving excrutiatingly twiddy guitars and the dreaded dynamics of the slow bit / quick bit. The slow bits feature badly out-of-time percussion and Amelia lisping her angst for all the world, as if Anne from The Famous Five had reached some kind of dysfunctional puberty. The quick bits also feature some out-of-time percussion and Amelia and the equally Byronesque other singer trying to out-falsetto each other in shrill vocal cut and parries about nasty boys that shag 'em and dump 'em. So no change there, either. Quelle surprise

Three words: DIE, HEAVENLY, DIE. Like, now.