My Bloody Valentine: Bull & Gate, London
Mark Sinker, New Musical Express, 20 September 1986
(AND PLEASURE-heads must burn...). So here they are in matching mop-tops and lurex star-trek jerkins, and here I am breaking myself on their urge for bodily transcendence and the weary inner knowledge of futility that blocks it. (Oh, I've been here before, I'm thinking, I know this mediocre hunger, this ambition unstained by value.)
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