Carmel: Good News (EastWest)
Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 5 September 1992
HOW DOES one combine good taste in all its repulsive manifestations with the desire to expose corruption and general street-level decay? F*** knows, but Carmel, a designer beatnik veteran of early Eighties style magazines who oozes sophistication and clearly has good taste for blood, makes several risible attempts here.
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