Julian Cope: World Shut Your Mouth (Mercury)
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 18 February 1984
I FEAR WE might shut our collective gob for the rest of time and we still wouldnt get a good Julian Cope album. I didnt wanna be the one to spank the author of Treason of Reward of the coolest ever paean to acid punk rock. Its just turned out that way.
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