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XTC and Gary Numan: The New English Art Rock

Roy Trakin, Musician, February 1981

BOTH XTC and Gary Numan express a sense of the new English isolation. Americans seem to like the car-crazy Numan, while the pure British pop of XTC is as yet unappreciated.

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