Chrome: Half Machine Lip Moves
Andy Gill, NME, 17 March 1979
THE TITLE OF Chrome's second album Alien Soundtracks perfectly describes one level on which their music can be taken: the evocation of a fantasy world in which Deathlok the Demolisher gets trapped inside a Philip K Dick plot.
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