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(Drawing) Rings Around The World

This is a belter

Phil Udell

Still yet to be totally convinced by the Super Furries, a good idea yet to totally succeed in practice, but this is a belter – what the Beach Boys would have sounded like if they’d come from Cardiff and gone to the odd rave.

Phil Udell

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