Golden Girl – Mary Strand (reviewed by Dave Franklin)

By its very nature, rock music tends to be full of itself, bombastic and incendiary. But that confidence often comes with a lot of cliched sonic baggage. Pop music, on the other hand, can be cool and infectious, but again, pays the price through its often shallow and transient nature; but there is a place where these two genres meet, a place where just the right level of pop addiction is balanced with just enough rock swagger. Where…

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