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The Auteurs: After Murder Park (Hut DGHIH33)

Andy Gill, The Independent, 8 March 1996

HE TALKS a good fight, does Auteurs songwriter Luke Haines, but only intermittently delivers on his promises. This third album is a strangely, unaffecting affair after 1994's splendid Now I'm a Cowboy, all the more bafflingly so for its focus on violent death.

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