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Sylvian Gives the People What He Wants

Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 5 April 1988

SAY YOU'VE come under the melancholy spell of David Sylvian's richly atmospheric music — an autumnal wash of strings and electronics, with the singer's low, tremulous voice roaming through the soundscape in search of the very essence of emotion.

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