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Captain Beefheart: The Spotlight Kid (Reprise 2050)

Nick Tosches, Fusion, May 1972

POTENTIOMETERS pop (the odor of electricity) behind the silvery mugs of android dervishes. A gasket goes. The old Aristotelean construct programs splatter into a mess of disparate quarkdrives in one convulsive circuitry breakdown.

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