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The Membranes: Gift Of Life (Creation)

Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 14 September 1985

MORE SPUNKY misdemeanours from the oddest thing to have come out of Blackpool since the road to Morecambe. Newly signed to Creation, this trio seem far more at home than of old, mainly because they've at last found fellow spirits in Alan McGee's world, a world where hardcore can only exist if tempered by healthy pop melodies somewhere deep down.

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