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Adele Bertei: Little Lives (Chrysalis) ***

Deborah Frost, Rolling Stone, 23 March 1989

AT LAST A woman who proves that dance music and bimbo are not necessarily synonymous. Unlike the faceless, pitchless one-hit material-girl wonders, Bertei, on her first solo album, takes percolating, synth-based grooves to a new realm — of the mind, not just the booty.

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