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Weather Report: Mr. Gone

Max Bell, New Musical Express, 21 October 1978

WEATHER REPORT are suffering an identity crisis which has completely mitigated the potential of Mr. Gone. Their unwillingness to pursue the avenues of progression opened up by Sweetnighter, Mysterious Traveller and Tale Spinnin' has curtailed the cerebral in favour of the repetitive, simpler statements of recent years.

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