Sisters of Mercy: Some Girls Wander By Mistake
Robert Sandall, Q, June 1992
"I LIKE to think it was the songs that made this band," Andrew Eldritch writes in the sleevenotes, "I know it wasn't." And as this comprehensive 19-trackround-up of The Sisters Of Mercy's juvenilia proves, he's got it pretty well right.
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