James: Four Imaginary Boys
Mat Snow, NME, 15 March 1986
"I'D LIKE TO put a disclaimer in at this point: Mat Snow is using very long word and drawing us into an academic discussion of our music when we consider it to be fun and quite simple."
Total word count of piece: 2191
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