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Soft Cell: Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Van Gosse, The Village Voice, 23 February 1982

TO CHAMPION AN English electropop duo right now is a poor business; on all sides are heard the virile snickers of those who abominate synthesizers while upholding various yeoman guitarist-composers in their earnest, usually revivalist artisanry.

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