Robyn Hitchcock's Colossal Mutations
Mark Dery, International Musician, July 1986
WHAT DO you get when you cross nursery crimes, rump-bumping beats, hooky melodies that are bittersweet as a bite of watermelon pickle, and batty lyrics like "sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl/so I could rape myself in the shower"?
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