"...Full fat Big Flame by way of Bruce Foxton bass lines pushing the edgy Andy Gill staccato of the guitar parts and a haunting ambiguity in the deadpan vocals that conjure images of Colin Newman while the time is kept by a man crossed up between the precision of Art Blakey and the timing as sixth sense of Jabo Starks.... "...The Cougar is a very methodical unit. Every move is calculated, usually with their repercussions carrying the weight of the thesis. And the study is the reward of everyone involved..." --Number 2 zine.