Review - Kim Wilde

And still they come... the second generation pop stars emerge and prove that rock music wasn't just a flash in the cosmos. Kim Wilde treads her old man's footsteps with sureness born of excellent guidance and produces an album which firmly backs up the success of her single Kids In America. With the songs provided by her pa and her brother, she can sidestep any comparisons to Blondie and emerge as a truly Brit pop star.

RECORD MIRROR said: "There'no reason why she shouldn't notch up a series of hits... there's no mistaking her individuality. Though scarcely LP of the year it's a good pop album from the girl who doesn't try to overreach herself and who is nothing if not unpretentious. She's got her sights square on success which she looks capable of handling as she is of gaining."

SOUNDS said: "We're not supposed to like Kim Wilde but we do anyhow. Kim Wilde is for readers of The Sun and watchers of Top of the Pops... Weak and beautiful. 'Kim Wilde' is just what you'd expect it to be. A momentary escape from toil, containing (for 1980) illusion that is necessary, that of worthwhile contemporary concerns."

NME said: "'Kim Wilde' is ingenious, ingenious, outstandingly zealous, devastatingly predictable, a whipped cream of cliche and fraud, desperately unambiguous... Kim Wilde is too good to be true and too true to be good... 'Kim Wilde' is class trash, the shrewdest shallow compilation of fillers, pleasers, hits and sly gin since 'Kings Of The Wild Frontier'."

FLEXIPOP says: Well deserved acclaim for Kim Wilde, who's blazing a trail for fresh talent... and even better, she cuts through all that slushy submissiveness so beloved of Sheena Easton and the other housewife superstars.