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Shriekback: Things That Go Blorp In The Night

Mark Dery, Pulse!, December 1985

SHRIEKBACK LIKE things that go blorp in the night. Their latest disk, Oil and Gold (Island/8.98 list), has the slippery feel of a jellied eel's handshake. Song titles burble by like deep sea denizens – 'Hammerheads', 'Coelocanth', 'Fish Below the Ice'.

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