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New Musik: Doom Disguised as Jollity

Betty Page, Sounds, 24 May 1980

NEW MUSIK are not avant garde, Mancunian, Liverpudlian, hip or trendy. What they currently are and what many of those Mancunians and Liverpudlians must desire to be, is a 'chart' band, that much maligned and scoffed at category of commercial winners who are scorned out of jealousy. And contrary to the idea that this must indicate they're hollow, they have a dream...

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