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Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, August 2002
BACK IN February 1999, Wayne Coyne wrote of the soon-to-be-released The Soft Bulletin that, "in a strange reversal of musical universes, the more indulgent and sonically perverse we got, the more commercial we sounded".
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