UNCUT

REDISCOVERED

BOX OF CHOCOLATES

Fearful Symmetry (reissue, 1990) DRAG CITY

8/10

Curio from future achievers – including Will Oldham – is dusted off, 30 years on

AT the fag end of the ’80s, the NYC neighbourhood dubbed Dumbo (district under Manhattan Bridge Overpass) was still a long way from

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