The Psychedelic Furs: The Psychedelic Furs
Robot A. Hull, Creem, December 1980
THE AFFINITY BETWEEN bands of the golden Age of Psychedelia and the current rash of art-progs is fairly obvious: both possess a nauseating need to expand our minds, intellectualizing rock 'n' roll into a vapid structure.
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