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Quicksilver Messenger Service: What About Me (Capitol)

Ben Edmonds, Rolling Stone, 18 February 1971

QUICKSILVER displayed acute weaknesses on their previous album and they remain very much in evidence on What About Me. Though the group has polished up considerably — at times nearly to the point of respectability — a simple coat of polish cannot disguise the fact that they haven’t solved their problems.

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