[1][2] "Drowning in the Sea of Love" was released as the follow-up to the band's UK breakthrough hit "Broken Land".

44 on the UK Singles Chart after radio play dropped following the Piper Alpha Disaster in July 1988.

Lead vocalist Terry Sharpe told Sunday World in September 1988, "The British press started phoning up the BBC saying that they found the record offensive because of the Piper Alpha tragedy, so they stopped playing it.

"[6] In a review of The Sea of Love, Ferdia MacAnna of the Evening Herald (Dublin) praised the song as "the kind of rumbustious anthem that will have people wailing the chorus from here to Alice Springs".

[7] Mario Tarradell of The Miami News commented, "The harmonies are beautifully arranged to create a pop song in the tradition of Burt Bacharach and Jimmy Webb.