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Penetration: Coming Up for Air (Virgin International)

Laura Fissinger, Rolling Stone, 20 March 1980

HEY, THE echo switch has been rediscovered! Not to mention other stuff within reach of a bargain-basement studio console. Producer Steve Lillywhite seems to have missed the Seventies. Probably fell asleep around 1968, waking up just in time to make mincemeat out of Penetration's first American release, Coming Up for Air.

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