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The Verve: Urban Hymns

Simon Reynolds, Village Voice, 18 November 1997

Damn and blast the Verve. I'd sworn never to fall again for that classic-rock godstar-savior-shaman shtick, that it was gonna be dance music's desiring-machines and anonymous collectives forever and ever, amen.

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