The Sundays: Blind Optimism
Nick Coleman, Time Out, 2 December 1992
After the sheer brilliance of their debut album, The Sundays have delivered a follow-up, Blind, which is... not quite so fabulous. Nick Coleman goes to their studio give them a good talking-to and ends up being thoroughly charmed.
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