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The Cars: Candy-O (Elektra)

Nick Kent, NME, 7 July 1979

THE CARS, Jesuit rock critics harangue, are the new wave at its most specious, manufactured and thus calculated to appease those ultra-reactionary brutes ruling the tastes of the American record buyer with an iron rod.

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