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Dexy's Midnight Runners: Searching For The Young Soul Rebels

Mitchell Cohen, Creem, May 1981

WHAT A GASEOUS hoot this album is. Such a conglomeration of goofy pretentions, cornball horn charts and blowsy singing hasn't been heard since the pre-War work of Eric Burdon.

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