The Undertones: The Undertones (Sire).
Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 5 May 1979
FOR SOME reason, this album reminds me of a scene in Kate Bush's live show, the part where she plays a rifle-toting trouble-shooter on 'James And The Cold Gun', pumping bullets mercilessly into the writhing bodies of three gun slingers/dancers. It strikes me that this album could be the rifle; the 14 tracks are the bullets.
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