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The Triffids: Born Sandy Devotional

Mat Snow, NME, 21 June 1986

THE MID-'80s motto is that irony has gone mainstream. Self-confidence and hope for the future have evaporated in glittering, actressy despair, to be replaced by an artful, knowing mockery cum fetish for the follies of the past.

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