SOURCE: Newey, Adam. “A Scratchy Woollen Jumper That Doesn't Quite Fit.” New Statesman 130, no. 4533 (15 April 2001): 53-4.
In the following review, Newey offers a negative assessment of Electric Light, noting that “the compressed textures of the language tak[es primacy over just about everything else.”]
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