CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE

A-HA “Hunting High And Low” (Warner Bros.) Quite aware that I don’t qualify as a pubescent female, I tried to be understanding. It’s not their fault they’re blond, after all— they’re Norwegian. But though they’d clearly have been better off raised closer to the blues—in Wales, say—the gutturals of fellow Scandinavians from Gasolin’ to the Nomads suggests that their precious Yes-gone-Europop accents are chosen freely.