 While not as gritty and psychedelic as the band's debut (which by this time had been re-released as an eight-song mini-LP called "Hollywood Holiday"), "Drifters", with its folk-rock influences, was dubbed "guitar poetry" by Rolling Stone scribe David Fricke.Other 1980s luminaries started noticing the band, such as Prince, who passed along the word after one Minneapolis show that he was greatly impressed with guitarist McGrath's lyrical leads.True West landed in London in April 1985 amidst what the U.K. music press had declared "The American Invasion," which had been kicked off a few months earlier by the arrival of R.E.M..