High Llamas: Cold And Bouncy
Paul Lester, Uncut, February 1998
SEAN O'HAGAN of, first, Microdisney, and now The High Llamas, has been one of our finest melodicists for 15 years. Along with Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout, he has written some of the most classically lovely songs of the era.
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