Rebel Without a Sanity Clause: John Cale’s Caribbean Sunset (Ze/Island)
Chris Bohn, NME, 28 January 1983
HARDBOILED GOING on soft-headed, John Cale as chronicler of the man of action invariably topples over into drunken, unremitting and participatory relish of the deeds he describes.
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