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The Kinks: Low Budget (Arista)

Mark Williams, Melody Maker, 29 September 1979

THE TROUBLE with Ray Davies is that since he forsook the stark, three-chord spleen of 'You Really Got Me' and 'All Day & All Of The Night', he seems to have taken it upon himself to become a guardian of the nation's spiritual and moral resources.

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