sentences: "Through the Door" (on which Freeman's Cocteau Twins influences dominated) won the Single of the Week award in Melody Maker and gained sufficient interest for Thieves to move up to Nursery's parent company, Hut Recordings (itself a subsidiary of Virgin Records).Later in the year, the first Hut release – Thieves' second single "Unworthy" – showed the duo moving in a much more pop-orientated direction.