The La’s: The La’s (Go! Discs)
Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 26 January 2001
WHO REMEMBERS the Las when they first popped out of the Liverpool woodwork? A cherubic quartet of scallies, they were pure cutesy retro, 60s revisitors with frayed guitars and amps, and no great Merseyside threat to the Ed-up prole art threat of late 80s Madchester.
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