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The Box: Great Moments In Big Slam (Go! Discs)

Leyla Sanai, New Musical Express, 18 August 1984

WHEN THE old DVA clocked out in late '82, the name went one way, the spirit the other. While the new DVA went on to musical insignificance (with the exception of the great 'Breakdown') The Box grasped onto ideals and intuition, and hurled energy, anger, and savage intensity into A-bombs of explosive, frenetic cacophony.

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