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side of a split album they released with

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(whose side was entitled ''

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''). It was released on

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1993 on Catcall Records in the

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, and on the

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label in the

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Influence

Gordon Moakes of

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has cited the album's song "Blow Dry" as being influential to him when he heard it in the early 1990s. In 2008, he wrote that the song "...was so simple, so ugly, so daring. What those two minutes of feedback and scruffy drums warned of was a new language of rock'n'roll that was dangerous, alluring and turned everything that had come before on its head." In 2015, Lisa Wright of ''

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'' wrote of the album:

Track listing

References

External links

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