Dream Nails’ Latest LP is Good, But You Wish It Was Better
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Dream Nails’ Latest LP is Good, But You Wish It Was Better

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Punk From the Past: Poly Styrene

Whilst researching this piece on Poly Styrene, the frontwoman of the 1970s British punk band X-Ray Spex, I developed a sort of parasocial kinship for both Poly (a.k.a. Marian Elliot) and her daughter, Celeste.

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