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The La’s: The La’s (Go! Discs)

Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, 26 January 2001

WHO REMEMBERS the La’s 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 E’d-up prole art threat of late ’80s Madchester.

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