Siouxsie & The Banshees: Kaleidoscope (Polydor)
Paolo Hewitt, Melody Maker, 26 July 1980
STRANGE TO think that, as the Banshees' contemporaries head off for the fourth or even fifth time in the studio, Kaleidoscope marks only the third round for a band who seem to have been with us forever.
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