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Suede: The Brettish Movement

Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 5 September 1992

They're grandly egocentric, they're glad to be fey, they think they're God's gift — and they might be right. Heaven knows, they're visceral now, and SUEDE are here to answer our fevered English guitar pop prayers. STUART MACONIE luxuriates in the hubris of a bunch of passionate, self possessed Yankophobe dandies and gets drunk on their grammar.

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