Slaughter and the Dogs: Do It Dog Style
Ian Penman, NME, 1 July 1978
UNFORTUNATELY, A posthumous debut album. Quite something, not even the anti-Christ (Sex Pistols) managed to pull that off. But it is a rather sad, inevitably obvious affair. A pink tombstone. An obscene epitaph.
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