Blur In America
Everett True, Melody Maker, 9 March 1996
BOSTON. IT'S COLD. Covered in snow. Twee. In the rarefied, tourist part of the city centre, fairy lights twinkle on the gaudy exterior of Doc O'Shanty's genuine old-fashioned Irish bar and Waterstone's "Feed Your Head" experience like we're in some sanitised, nightmare-ish vision of the UK.
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