Gun Club: Miami (Animal) *****
Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 18 September 1982
IN A MUSICAL world that is forever being bedevilled and picked at by the bland spirits of so called 'new pop', the emergence of a real monster like the Gun Club to come lumbering out of the graveyard and knock over a few tombstones is an essential and somewhat exquisite relief.
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