The Pretty Things: Savage Eye
Tom Nolan, Phonograph Record, March 1976
NOT AS, NOT AT all as, not nearly as, doesn't even come close to being anything at all as good as their last one, Silk Torpedo, which impressed throngs from San Francisco to Philly. Still, there's something endearing about this band.
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