Bad Brains: Rock For Light (Abstract)
Richard Cook, NME, 20 August 1983
BAD BRAINS are an idea bursting full-tilt from a terminally fevered cortex. Rock For Light is the attempted rationalising of the notion, and it so nearly succeeds that its shortcomings shrink back.
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