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China Crisis: What Price Paradise (Virgin)

The Legend!, New Musical Express, 29 November 1986

CHINA CRISIS are a polite band. Worried about jagged edges, loose chords and jarring vocals, they airbrush their songs with a vapid wash which makes them slip down so easily you begin to wonder if you were listening to anything at all.

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