Labelle: Phoenix
Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 20 September 1975
FOR ALL PRACTICAL purposes, Phoenix is Labelle's third album. Forget anything prior to Pressure Cookin': those albums were by some other people and are of little more than academic interest.
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