This review appeared in the 11/20/95 issue of Consumable Online.  Enjoy...

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        REVIEW: Toad the Wet Sprocket, _In Light Syrup_ (Columbia)
        Toad the Wet Sprocket has built its audience by faithfully touring
over the years and giving their fans a sense of intimate appreciation.
Some felt the bands had strayed too far from their roots on the recent
tour, by omitting nearly all songs (save 1 or 2) before their breakthrough
album _Fear_.  It's payback for those fans now in the form of _In Light
Syrup_.
        This album, which consists of B-sides, soundtrack extras, mailing 
list singles and previously unreleased tracks,  represents a cleaning out of 
the closet for Toad.  However, despite these originally being throwaway
tracks, they sound stronger than other bands completed works.
        The first single (!), "Good Intentions", was originally an outtake
from the _Fear_ sessions.  Some may have heard it from the _Friends_
soundtrack, and it may garner airplay today, but it isn't the kind of
track likely to generate new interest in Toad.  A big Toad fan (like
myself) will wind up playing it again...and again...and again.  As some
of Toad's most recent work ("Fly From Heaven", "I Will Not Take These
Things For Granted"), its lilting sound and pleasant vocals are much
in the genre of what Toad fans expect.  And, the lyrics aren't as 
dark as those which appeared on _Bread and Circus_.
        There's a real easy test to see if you should purchase this album:
do you own any other Toad discs, and listen to them?  If the answer
is "Yes", then _In Light Syrup_ will be a welcome way to close the door
on Toad's past, until they come out with their next album.

TRACK LISTING: Brother, Little Heaven, Good Intentions, Hobbit on the
Rocks, Are We Afraid, So Alive, All In All, All Right, Janitor,
Chicken, Hope, All She Said

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