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Kid Creole & the Coconuts: Wise Guy (Ze/Sire)

j. poet, Creem, October 1982

EVERY SO often a record comes along sporting such wit, style, finess, integrity, imagination, good taste, humor, and originality that you suspect the poor sucker ain't gonna go anywhere, sales-wise. That, I fear, may be the fate of August Darnell, a.k.a. Kid Creole.

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