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Shocking Pinks
words by Emma Edmondson
DFA are famed for their experimental mental one-man bands. After all, one half of said New Yawker label is the LCD Soundsystem brain - and James Murphy has always had a penchant for cryptic he-lyrics and danceamatic live drum loops. Shocking Pinks are no different. Kitsch sub-pop akin to Pavement in their hey-day, this debut is how Beck would sound if he got locked in a studio with some session musicians, smoked an ogre of opium and listened to Syd Barrett’s ‘The Madcap Laughs’ in between takes. Pure mellow-musical-madness tip-toe-ing on the brink of insanity. Magic.
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