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Nirvana: Bleach (Tupelo/All formats); Hormoaning (Japanese CD only)

Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 7 March 1992

WHAT'S ON offer here are Nirvana's (bleached) roots, a raw-throated and perhaps over-fussy sounding debut LP that would eventually spawn a phenomenon. Bleach – with all its faults intact – reveals just how they managed to scramble to the top of the grunge heap to take on the world.

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