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Various Artists: Day Of The Dead (4AD)

Jamie Atkins, Record Collector, June 2016

2009'S DARK WAS The Night benefit album for the HIV/AIDS charity Red Hot Organization was something of an anomaly among such compilations; whereas most collections of its ilk become a dumping ground for sketches, inessential live takes or ill-advised remixes, this one represented a collective raising of the bar from those involved.

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