Days between stations: the Verve's raw nerve - British pop group's release of its third album

Interview, Dec, 1997 by Greil Marcus

Certainly, it's a sort of release that over the past years Joy Division, New Order, the Pet Shop Boys, or Polly Jean Harvey have had no use for. Any comparison of the Verve to performers with the passion and slyness of Harvey or Neil Tennant would be absurd. They've been and gone from places Richard Ashcroft will never get to, and that may be his luck.

As a pop artist, he can stick around in places artists on another level might not even notice.