Mansun
Paul Lester, Uncut, October 1998
PAUL DRAPER has been inspired by some of the climactic moments of post-War culture David Bowie's "Berlin" trilogy, mid-Eighties Prince, Talking Heads' art beat, Patrick McGoohan's The Prisoner to create what already sounds like a late-Nineties classic.
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