Tom Robinson Band: TRB Two
Paul Morley, NME, 10 March 1979
THIS IS the diligently prepared and acutely-self conscious follow-up to that shaky first collection which naturally ended everyone's excited and premature self-congratulation over a singularly feeble rebellion. The anxiously determined intentions are obvious all the way through.
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