With its jazz-band scoring, featuring banjo and saxophone, and its sheer ebullience, "Les Larmes" is more instantly appealing, and this production wisely places it second.

Two terrific tunes with provocative words and instantly appealing melodies.

"Days Go By" is instantly appealing, but it doesn't sound like a conventional hit single.

"There was this tension inherent in the project that I found instantly appealing," Mr. Cloepfil said.

There is something about Sam Beam's voice and phrasing that is instantly appealing, friendly and welcoming.

At the age of 82, Penelope Fitzgerald has an instantly appealing face: fine-boned, gracious, modest.

While the songs themselves weave in and out of these very different approaches, Annie Clark's instantly appealing voice gives the record a cohesion that might be absent otherwise.

The score is instantly appealing - an all-American compendium of show tunes and Sousa marches, broad-shouldered hymns and wind-swept folk songs.

It makes choices that fly against the grain and leans on effects that are more intriguing than they are instantly appealing (and have a special merit for that reason).

Of the seven non-single tracks, about four would easily make top-class single releases... Bucks Fizz is an instantly appealing album with some tracks registering immediately and other tracks growing on you".