Love: Reel to Real
Max Bell, NME, 7 December 1974
A LOT OF people are going to be highly disappointed with this album, Lee's first with the new but not improved Love. Not that he reaches the depths of glum direness perpetrated on the inaptly named Vindicator, but this is far from what Lee can supposedly do, and that isn't criticism fired by nostalgia.
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