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Prefab Sprout: Protest Songs

Phil Sutcliffe, Q, July 1989

LET'S GET this straight at the outset; this isn't the new Prefab Sprout album and they aren't protest songs. Confused? Listen to Paddy McAloon and you probably will be – but the record proves that worse things happen at sea.

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