1) From www.allmusic.com (by Richie Unterberger)

Fresh Maggots were the British folk-rock duo of Mick Burgoyne and Leigh Dolphin , who were just 19 years of age when their sole, self-titled album came out in 1971. Comprised entirely of original material, the LP had an admirable array of textures, adding some heavily distorted electric guitar and orchestration around an acoustic guitar base. While much of the material is acoustic and folky at the core, it's embellished by a good deal of instrumentation by Burgoyne , who plays tin whistles, violin, and glockenspiel, in addition to some surprisingly burning distorted electric guitar. there's also some fine acoustic guitar picking and a bit of tasteful orchestration.

2) From www.dustedmagazine.com

Burgoyne and Dolphin perpetuate the bardic inclinations of folk music, but with the accompaniment of a haze of electric guitars blurring the delicate picking. The ornamentation of the songs is remarkably mature. Flutes and fragile acoustic plucking are plaited with glockenspiel, the distortion of electric guitar and crescendoing violin... Fresh Maggots arrive back on the shelf with a musical intricacy that, though not labyrinthine, is as satisfying as the best of their peers.

3) From www.foxydigitalis.com (by Jeff Penczak)

Mick Burgoyne (electric guitar, violin) and Leigh Dolphin (acoustic guitar, vocals) were a pair of 19-year old Nuneaton lads who dealt in extremes on their only album, originally released on RCA in 1971. Dolphin's soft, pastoral, acoustic folk guitar ("Rosemary Hill") lives alongside Burgoyne's harsher, fuzz-drenched guitar solos ("Dole Song"), with stereotypical early 70's hippie musical accoutrements like flutes, tin whistles, glockenspiels wafting lazily into the mix throughout. Burgoyne's violin adds a classical, baroque elegance to the proceedings. his blistering guitar solos often intrude into Dolphin's passive, acoustic backing - perhaps suggesting a musical battle between the hawkish, aggressive electric scene and the free-flowing, laid back peace, love and harmony of the more traditional folkie scene. This battle royale is featured on the lengthy closer "Frustration," which features Burgoyne's fuzz-drenched solos bookending Dolphin's contemplative, anti-war ruminations. "And When She Laughs" is a delicate whiper of a love ballad, while "Spring"'s strings again add a melancholic air. I even detected a whiff of Love's "Alone Again Or" sneaking into Dolphin's guitar lines on the lovely acoustic instrumental, "Elizabeth R." Long out of print and frequently bootlegged over the years, this official release is another feather in Sunbeam's impressive bonnet, that promises to be one of the year's biggest discoveries on the reissue market and a label we will keep firmly in our crosshairs as their catalogue continues to grow.

4) From www.psychedelicfolk.homestead.com

This item is generally considered to be a classic, and deserves to be known as such. Sunbeam's CD brings new light to the recording and the group (with liner notes, rare pictures and newspaper quotes). It explains the whole story, which is, like so often, that stupid circumstances led to a short-lived group. Fine to see the single added as well, which fits well with the album. additionally one tape was saved from the radio sessions done in those, which is also included. The arrangements are not so different from the original album, but prove how the group was capable to perform these songs as a duo with equal strength. A welcome expanded CD.

5) From www.shindig-magazine.com

By taking the tried and tested acoustic duo format and adding layers of electric instruments, strings, woodwinds and studio technology, the exotically named Mick Burgoyne and Leigh Dolphin offered a highly listenable and unique take on the traditional UK folk-rock sound. "Rosemary Hill" is sheer bliss.