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Boxing Day by Dark Horses

Tom Jenkins | Tuesday 18 September, 2012 16:23

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More bands should wear clothing emblazoned with group monikers and motifs, it purports to a gang mentality, and all bands should be gangs from the outset really shouldn’t they? Boxing Day sheds layer after layer of minimal, industrial gloom-pop over it’s six minutes, like a Russian doll fashioned into a caricature of Siouxsie Sioux and in doing so consistently maintains the element of surprise. Dark Horses’ Richard Fearless produced debut, the fittingly titled Black Music, is released October 29.

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