The La’s: The La’s
Tom Graves, Rock and Roll Disc, June 1991
RIGHT OUT OF the box The Las had me hooked like a red snapper. All my complaints of yore about the bored soul at the heart of so much of todays college/alternative scene evaporated when the discs first track Son of a Gun came ringing out of my speakers like it had every right to be there.
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