Critical Response
Catch as Catch Can received mixed reviews from contemporary critics. Record Mirror found the album to contain "something for everyone" and praised Ricky Wilde for "showing a constantly changing style and no two songs are the same". Kim's "'young and snotty'" voice was compared to Michael Jackson's on the "hot and funky" "Back Street Joe", while "Sparks" was described as "dangerously close to sounding like good old Cliff (National Pop Institution) Richard himself". Smash Hits described Wilde's voice as "pretty-but-slight" and found the songs to be "a mass of uninspired synth patterns and plodding arrangements."
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