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Germ Free Adolescents

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Poly Styrene couldn’t have come up with a better set of songs about self-consciousness, representation, and consumerist ambivalence if a time traveler showed up in 1977 and told her about present-day social media. That makes it one of the most resilient albums to come out of UK punk’s first wave, a masterpiece in shouting (and sometimes laughing) to keep from crying. Their sax beats your sneer.

Nate Patrin

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