Dexy's Midnight Runners: Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Mitchell Cohen, Creem, May 1981
WHAT A GASEOUS hoot this album is. Such a conglomeration of goofy pretentions, cornball horn charts and blowsy singing hasn't been heard since the pre-War work of Eric Burdon.
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