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Wheat: Water Rat, King's Cross

Keith Cameron, The Guardian, 5 October 1999

IN A RELATIVELY brief career, one imagines Wheat are already weary of agricultural quips prompted by their name. But it would help if the Massachusetts quartet were to, say, go against the grain and confound at least some of the preconceptions prompted by white American college boys brandishing electric guitars and furrowed brows.

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