The Cars: The Cars
Max Bell, NME, 15 July 1978
I'M NOT at all sure about this band. Their roots place them in the Boston, Massachusetts region which, not being New York or LA, guarantees them an immediate status in the great undiscovered territories. And this debut album from The Cars is very New England, clever-clever. Deliberate?
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