Rip Rig & Panic: I Am Cold (Virgin)
Barney Hoskyns, NME, 19 June 1982
RIP, RIG & PANIC definitely ARE a manifestation of something obscene: music as an expression of HEALTH. Like the kind of swarthy boor who practises sex in order to keep his or her limbs in tune with the physical universe, Rip, Rig & Panic play music because... oh, dont you see, because they ARE music!
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