A-Side: Inside Mind
B-Side: Hour Of Degradation
Record label: Flicknife FLS 207
Producer: Frenchy Gloder & the Barracudas
Released: 26/02/82
Purchased: 23/05/83
Being sort of Godfathers to London’s new psychedelics, it’s hard lines that The Barracudas don’t look like capitalising on their influence. Lovingly-done, garage-band re-creations are all very well, but the want of a good tune is crushing. (NME, 27/02/82)
And what could be more frivolous than . . . the Barracudas! Moving on from surf (sounds like a soap powder test), they move into more fashionable waters – dare one say shallows – of late sixties popamerica. The end result is indifferent; besides, who in their right mind would want to grow up to be the Flamin’ Groovies, for heaven’s sake? (Record Mirror, 13/03/82)
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