Nirvana: Bleach (Tupelo)
Push, Melody Maker, 19 August 1989
STONED, LOADED. It's both a mental and a physical bliss. Everything is nothing but an abandoned blur. Minutes away from a blackout, from a sweet, fat zero, in the meantime, savour the experience of white-out conditions. Bleached. "Bleach" really is the ideal choice of title for a band called Nirvana.
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