Husker Dü: Camden Palace, London
Richard Cook, NME, 25 May 1985
If they played like they looked, Husker Dus music would be a slobbering mastodon rock without grace or curves or beauty. But from these angry grubs come gorgeous lepidoptera that arch and sting sweetly in the ears. They are playing this earths most magnificent rock.
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