Mick Mercer reviews Luxury Stranger's Desolation...

Mick Mercer (writer of many books, ex-staff on NME and Melody Maker and general expert on punk, post-punk, goth and indie music/scenes) has written a review on Luxury Stranger's Desolation album. Please follow the link (or copy and paste into your browser) to go to the LS myspace blog which in turn links to Mick's review... Thanks! LSAT

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=231669750&blogID=442356877

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  • ChrisR Mon, 2008/10/20 - 11:21am

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    Great review!

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