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Spacemen 3, The Dave Howard Singers: University of London Union

Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 19 November 1988

THE PROBLEM with most purveyors of ersatz electronic soul is they invariably forget the random element while building citadels of software perfect pop. Dave Howard has solved this with a new incarnation of his group that plays on the strengths of minimalism while seeming to exist in a welter of all-stops-pulled overload.

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