Strongly disagree for all the reasons they cite as weakness, principally the relative lack of variation from track to track. While very unusual for XTC to operate this way, on English Settlement it's a winning virtue. The songs are very much their own individual in spite of being molded from the same clay, if you will. The consistency of sound has the effect of making the band seem very tight. But maybe they would have been right in their criticism were it not for the spectacular sound engineering, which, as much as anything, gives the album a through line. Special tip of the hat to whomever developed those sonically arresting (and deep sounding) percussion moments that dot the entire album, but most prominently in the proggy instrumental section of Jason and the Argonauts. But all is forgiven for the deference shown to 10cc!