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X-Ray Spex: Poly Styrene Is Still Strictly Roots

Charles Shaar Murray, NME, 13 May 1978

SUNDAY NIGHT in Croydon, and Poly Styrene's voice is shot. Flu goes for the throat like a cornered rat: when the victim's a singer, the midrange of the voice gets ragged and shot through with static and the top end disappears completely.

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