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Pere Ubu: The Art of Walking (Rough Trade)

Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 30 August 1980

1. PERE UBU IS haywire, rudimentary, and patiently documentary. It operates on a yield of snared and shared rhythms, on symptoms that have been stitched and made up many times before.

Total word count of piece: 558

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