THE STRANGLERS Dark Matters COURSEGOOD/ABSOLUTE
Aug 19, 2021
3 minutes
By Nick Hasted
After the snarling insensitivity, it’s reflective and poignant
EVEN punk didn’t want The Stranglers: the movement for damaged outcasts drew the line at these Surrey brutes, seen as too thuggish, ancient, sexist and straight. Before that, pub-rockers too thought themselves above this glowering crew, with their corduroy-wearing biochemistry graduate singer, 37-year-old jazz drummer with a taste for home-brewing, a brooding bassist ever itching to use his karate skills, and
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