X-Ray Spex: Germfree Adolescents (CD) Ananda Shankar those elements shaping the album

those elements shaping the album as much as the voice and the instruments held within

and pianist Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - profound and deeply moving home cassette recordings made amidst political upheaval and turmoil

declared their intentions loud and clear with a rare blend of furious energy and no-nonsense

Bill’s now writing from somewhere beyond his Eagle-Apocalypse-River headspace

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X-Ray Spex: Germfree Adolescents (CD) Ananda Shankar those elements shaping the albumGermfree Adolescents, one of the signature albums of the early (1978) British punk movement, that serves as an ideal prism through which to see the hypocrisy of consumerist culture. The one and only LP release from X Ray Spex and its irrepressible frontwoman Poly Styrene has been deemed by everybody from Greil Marcus to Robert Christgau to Spin to Mojo as one of the greatest punk albums ever made. All of which she sings in a passionate yowl all her