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We Start Fires
words by Tom Stopp
You can’t pay the bills with time, but you can use it to pay your dues with the big fella upstairs. That’s why, although they were hugely under-rated to the poverty point of smack for breakfast, Elastica will sail through the pearly gates, heads aloft as the conquering underdogs of Brit Pop. We Start Fires will almost definitely follow suit in the success game, standing by while dullards The Pigeon Detectives become their Oasis. Still, as feel-good 90s disco bop ‘Play You’ shows here, you’ll love this band for a long time.
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