His long time partnership with McLaren McLaren led the art direction of McLaren's own inventive albums; Duck Rock and 'Fans'.

The New York Times described it as "the band's most inventive and winning album yet and as a fine a record as any pop-rock guitar band has made this year.

In 1985, he and his trio recorded two CD's at the Village Vanguard, but the albums, magnificently inventive, were quickly forgotten.

Their debut album Super Extra Bonus Party LP was released to widespread critical acclaim, winning the 2007 Choice Music Prize and considered "the most inventive Irish album this decade."

It has received much critical acclaim in Ireland and has been called "the most inventive Irish album this decade" and "contender for Irish album of the year".

A few years later he teamed up with former Magazine drummer Martin Jackson and Greg Wilson (DJ), and they released an inventive electronic album called UK Electro in 1984.

An amazing, inventive and wholly unique eighth album from an artist without peer.

The Guardian hailed it as "a great album: funny, clever, immediate, richly inventive."

Q gave the album four out of five stars and stated "If not Elliott's most inventive album, The Cookbook is certainly her most colourful and entertaining".

Blender called it "their most violently inventive album yet."