 Complete the following phrase:  The album was met with positive reviews from magazines such as Smash Hits, People, and Rolling Stone. Writing for the latter in December 1979, Debra Rae Cohen said that objections to the bands stylistic appropriations of new wave and reggae are rendered moot by the sheer energy of the bands rhythmic counter-punching. In The Village Voices year-end Pazz  Jop poll of American critics nationwide, Reggatta de Blanc was voted the 35th best album of 1979. Robert Christgau, the polls creator and the Voices chief critic, was lukewarm about the album in  1981: The idea is to fuse Stings ringing rock voice and the trios aggressive, hard-edged rock attack with a less eccentric version of reggaes groove and a saner version of reggaes mix. To me the result sounds half-assed. And though I suppose I might find the synthesis innovative if I heard as much reggae as they do in England, its more likely Id find it infuriating. In 