The Australian duo Frencham Smith are Liz Frencham, upright-bass player and singer, and Iain "Fred" Smith, singer-songwriter and guitarist. This is their second collaboration and continues the fine folk-pop work they began with Into My Room (2003). Frencham was also one-third of Sydney-based folk trio Jigzag before moving to Melbourne, and Smith has released several solo CDs. If you can get past the excruciating pun, Lovethongs has many things to recommend it in its narrative exploration of love. Smith has woven a fabric of song that seamlessly threads together love's labours lost and found in familiar Australian places, from Wollongong to St Kilda to the NSW border. Frencham's voice lilts between a sunshiny innocence and swagger, while Smith is the larrikin with the scuffed Jean-Paul Sartre copy in his back pocket.
Key track: She Is My Song, a tale of regret and redemption through love and music, sung true and strong by Smith.

Warwick McFadyen, The Sunday Age, June 3 2007