CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
BLONDIE: "The Hunter" (Chrysalis):: After feuding for years with moralists who accused the band of abandoning a lowbrow purity they never claimed in the first place, I'm stumped. This is a lousy record by any standard—the pop, the eclectic, even the arty.
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
by
Robert Christgau
BLONDIE: "The Hunter" (Chrysalis):: After feuding for years with moralists who accused the band of abandoning a lowbrow purity they never claimed in the first place, I'm stumped. This is a lousy record by any standard—the pop, the eclectic, even the arty. That Debbie is writing all the lyrics is only symptomatic—the tragedy is that of an absorptive, synthetic talent trying to find its essence, a doomed project that's doubly disorienting because she's canny enough not to believe in "self-expression" per se. Instead she gallumphs about in search of referents, referents she seemed to locate naturally back when she could walk the Bowery without a disguise. C