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Buggles: The Age Of Plastic (Island) **

Betty Page, Sounds, 9 February 1980

THE BASTARDISATION of "new music" continues! From Numan to New Musik they dress up their pop pulp with synthetics and call it futuristic; now The Buggles stretch uncomfortably out into the long playing medium like a skein of well-chewed bubblegum.

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