Aztec Camera
Blake Gumprecht, Matter, September 1983
I FIRST HEARD Aztec Camera two years ago with 'We Could Send Letters', their contribution to the Rough Trade C81 compilation. I moved four times that year, three the year before six cities in two years and that song hit a prone chord, a shy one, of friendships over before they began.
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