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Love Among the Ruins: Burial and the Poetics of Hoodie Dubstep

The Rev. Al Friston, eMusic.com, December 2007

IF I'M WRITING about dubstep, then it's officially over as a trend. I don't even know what dubstep is, and I'm not sure I need to know. It seems to be a term for the skippy, jittery South London dance music that came out of UK garage and "two-step" - the latest mutation of the sound that produced Mike Skinner aka The Streets.

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