Gladys Knight And The Pips: Visions
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 1983
SEEMS LIKE everyone is going Solar. Light to the touch but good to the bone, it's the radio sound of now. The perfect pop-soul marriage, made in a haven of soft, adhesive funk, it has us all in the calming palm of its hand.
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