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The Stylistics: Sing, Baby, Sing!

Colin Irwin, Melody Maker, 2 August 1975

ABUSE COMES too easily. The Stylistics are the masters of sweet soul, the kings of lush sentiment, and the lords of overstated romance. Even their fans acknowledge there may not be copious amounts of filling beneath the creamy surface, but it doesn't stop them wallowing in it all the same.

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