However, after the numerous covers contained in the previous two works there were only two on this album with the Young/Kewley partnership contributing eight of the tracks, two co-written with bass player Pino Palladino.

"Wonderland", written by Betsy Cook who also provided backing vocals on the album, reached No.

24 in the UK (Cook would later release her own version of the song on her 1992 album The Girl Who Ate Herself).

In a review for Rolling Stone, Laura Fissinger wrote: "Through the first few listens, the album seems muted and reticent, a bashful mishmash of pop riffs and references.

But after those initial plays, Between Two Fires takes on remarkable colours, as if its ten tracks were strips of film coming to life in a photographer's darkroom.