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The Shamen: In Gorbachev We Trust (Demon)

Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 4 February 1989

THE SHAMEN may indeed, as Steve Sutherland said, be a band whose time has come. For over three years now they've been drilling away, obsessed with the new perspectives hallucinogenic drugs can give us on living, and with a dance music of psychedelia. The acid house media overkill could have been designed for them.

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