Midnight Oil: Red Sails In The Sunset (Columbia)
Jon Young, Musician, June 1985
IN A SITUATION reminiscent of the celebrated "breath mint/candy mint" controversy, Australia's Midnight Oil is two bands in one. Listen once to Red Sails In The Sunset and they're an anti-nuclear, anti-imperialist crew of crusaders in the spirit of '60s folk. Listen again and they're a rip-roaring big-noise group that Judas Priest would be scared to cross.
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