Pere Ubu: The Art of Walking (Rough Trade)
Ian Penman, NME, 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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