The Pop Group/This Heat: Collegiate Theatre, London
Ian Penman, NME, 17 July 1978
TWO SEEMINGLY unconventional, superficially 'bleak', jagged modern-music outfits. Both engineer music suggesting radical departure, still somehow quaint.
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