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Frank Sidebottom: 13:9:88 (In Tape)

Bob Stanley, Melody Maker, 13 May 1989

SO WHAT do you reckon will be the first significant movement in Pop Music in the Nineties? Dreampop? Crotchquake? Stone Rose Psychedelia? Nah. The one man with his finger truly on the pulse of rock 'n' roll is Francis Sidebottom and with this his second LP, he anticipates the arrival of the 'travel rockumentary".

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