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The Individuals: Fields [Plexus, 1982]
They're easily the best of En Why's Pop Three on stage, scruffy and forceful and lithe, but as with most postteen modernists their lyrics lack that universal touch, and their records have none of the dB's' lapidary virtuosity or the Bongos' seductive drone. B