The Adverts: Bored Teenagers
Dave Thompson, Goldmine, September 1997
ANYONE PAYING attention to the British music scene in recent years cannot help but have noticed T.V. Smith. Across three superlative albums, 1991's RIP: Everything Must Go, 1994's March Of The Giants, and now The Immortal Rich, T.V. has offered the current decade one of its most captivating musical spectacles.
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