Bananarama: Bananarama (London)
Mitchell Cohen, Creem, August 1984
BANANARAMA CAN'T BE bothered to raise their voices; it's just not worth it. The attitude is cool deadpan, the image is ye'-ye' girls with a modern stylishly disheveled and exquisitely blasé.
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