Neil's CD, titled Emily And Charlotte is very well presented
and the sounds are also well recorded, but the production
lacks feel where programmed drums have been used on the
upbeat songs. This can be a difficult thing to pin down, but in
this instance I'd put it down to over-use of quantisation in
Cubase. The real drums of the second song, by contrast,
swing and move with the music, a guitar-based song which
sounds all the better for it. Given that Neil can record the
Tama kit (itself a great set of drums) so well, I can't really
see why he bothers with the triggered ones for the faster
numbers. However, the third track, a ballad, is tightly
constructed, and here the minimal use of sequenced material
is perfectly balanced with the guitar and vocal.

John Harris
Sound on Sound Magazine / July 1999
(Reproduced with kind premission)