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I was 11; I was at an all-boys boarding school in Suffolk, England.

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Our summer series on punk songs c. 1974–1983 begins…

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I thought I had imagined the New Pornographers.

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A singer lucidly stranded between how smart she is and how often her smarts haven’t helped her.

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We tilted against received falsehoods, but what would it actually mean to be free of them?

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It was so noisy, crunchy and abrasive, but I was hooked.

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Written in the wake of 9/11, it feels what we all felt.

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“I can get a straight job/done it before/Never minded working hard/it’s who I’m working for”