The Raincoats: Odyshape
Robot A. Hull, Creem, December 1981
PAT BENATAR? Sheena Easton? Judie Tzuke?! You'd think this was the Stone Age – it's as if feminism had never existed, as if women in rock 'n' roll had never progressed beyond the role of sex objects for drooling adolescent males.
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