Robert Christgau: Dean of American Rock Critics

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  • Wavelength [Wasp, 1980] B-

Consumer Guide Reviews:

Wavelength [Wasp, 1980]
Ah, suburbia, synthesizing information overload into unheard-of pop combos native to everywhere and nowhere. Take these presumptive civil service brats, for instance. Why, they cram Commie propaganda, a Wire cover, Europop, electro-DOR, and of course surf music onto one eight-song, twenty-five-minute, $5.98-list "EP." But the only cut that'll be heard of again in my house is the revealingly entitled "Fascination With the Neon." B-