Orange Juice: Texas Fever (Polydor)
Don Watson, NME, 10 March 1984
TO MAKE things clear from the start, Texas Fever arouses an excitement I thought I may be in danger of forgetting, at least in connection with that most desecrated of artifacts, the pop record.
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