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The Primer: The Residents

Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, February 2001

A bi-monthly series in which we offer a user's guide to recordings of some of our favourite musicians. This month, Edwin Pouncey takes a duck stab at unraveling the music and mystery of Californian conceptualists The Residents.

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