sentences:  "Fresh Blood" received positive reviews from contemporary music critics.In a retrospective review for AllMusic, critic Dave Thompson gave the album three and a half out of five stars and wrote that "Swindells' "Fresh Blood" heralded the coming rise of the keyboard, while gallantly introducing the immediate musical past -- punk and New Wave, to the future.But the future wasn't beckoning him; a tad too ahead of his time for the U.S., and just a step behind the times for the U.K., this fabulous album sunk with little trace and even less interest from his label.