The Art Of Noise: In Visible Silence (China Records)
Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 19 April 1986
SO it's THE Art Of Noise now is it? Addition of the definitive article does not hide an alarming slump into powerpop abandon and things beneath the dreadful post-modernist sleeve look far from beautiful.
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