"Cocker cleverly challenges long-held sexual mores with penetrative insight. He’s as indebted to Michel Foucault and the Kinsey Reports as to the sex-charged poesy of Lou Reed and Bryan Ferry. His songwriting is porn with a gripping plot, offering narratives too smart to be trashy and too lascivious to be taken seriously. While Suede vocalist and Britpop associate Brett Anderson focused on the “used condom under the bed” aspect of relationships, Cocker is consumed with the moment the prophylactic is unrolled."
"Cocker cleverly challenges long-held sexual mores with penetrative insight. He’s as indebted to Michel Foucault and the Kinsey Reports as to the sex-charged poesy of Lou Reed and Bryan Ferry. His songwriting is porn with a gripping plot, offering narratives too smart to be trashy and too lascivious to be taken seriously. While Suede vocalist and Britpop associate Brett Anderson focused on the “used condom under the bed” aspect of relationships, Cocker is consumed with the moment the prophylactic is unrolled."
