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Smoke and Fiction

(Fat Possum Records)




Proof that in music, the aging process is not a necessary factor. In fact, the only thing that tempers the spirit of '77 is experience wise enough to avoid indulgence. Voices sweep and swoop, slap-crack beats are irresistable, Billy's guitar blasts and side-swipes, and all is good for 28:40. This is said to be X's final disc. That would be so wrong.

Recommended: "Ruby Church," "Sweet Til the Bitter End," "The Way It Is," "Flipside," "Big Black X," "Smoke and Fiction," "Struggle," "Winding Up the Time," "Face In the Moon," "Baby and All"

Video: "Ruby Church"


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