Scritti Politti: Intellectual Hooliganism
Chris Roberts, Melody Maker, 2 March 1991
"SO YOU USE the language of dreams and you toy around for the micropolitical effect of the goosebump. I like that – the goosebump as empirical evidence of the micropolitical effect of music. God, I talk some trash! I love it though. Stops me getting bored if I can't play darts."
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