Alan Vega: Collision Drive (Celluloid)
Ralph Traitor, Sounds, 23 January 1982
ALAN VEGA'S recent departure into ersatz neo-rockabilly will elicit a variety of responses from his admirers. Some will call it a sell-out, but that's a colossal misreading of Vega, who has simply returned to the roots he has always displayed, even as the vocal half of Suicide, America's (only) great electronic group.
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