Alex Chilton: Like Flies On Sherbert (Aura) ****
Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 23 February 1980
ABSOLUTELY ONE of a kind, because, while archivists insist they wish that Jimbo was still here or that Syd would make another album, Alex Chilton is the only one of the dead-or-alive brigade who actually manages to come up with some product now and then, and none of that real unsaleable 4 in-the-morning shit to boot!
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