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Electric Sun: Solar Flair

Phil Bell, Sounds, 27 March 1982

ONE DAY by the seaside.

A menacing ocean rears up and surges landward. Cruel winds lash our locks into matty rastafarian entanglement. Doomy clouds are giving no quarter, but the power of the afternoon Sun has symbolically breached the overhead grey shield and, by the ghosts of Hiroshima, I swear I can see a rainbow.

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