Stereolab: Simple Minds
Simon Reynolds, Rolling Stone, 4 April 1996
"Repetition in the music and we're never gonna lose it," sang Mark E. Smith of the English post-punk legends the Fall in the aptly titled Repetition. "Restriction is the great mother of inventive performance," declared Holger Czukay of the German art-rockers Can.
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