The Mock Turtles: Two Sides
Robert Sandall, Q, September 1991
AS PROVIDERS OF the best rock single of the year, the entrancingly tuneful, head-to-toe tapper 'Can You Dig It?', the Mock Turtles find themselves now in a rather uncomfortable position: having to sustain that three-minute preview of what heaven might sound like on Rock Night over a whole album.
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