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No matter how expensive the tools on your workbench, it doesn’t make you a mechanic. By the same token, the Watson Twins and Duncan Sheik may be talented musicians but they’re hardly artists. Both have displayed a load of promise without ever elevating their craft.
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Indie kids harbor this delusion that their shit don’t stink, but champion as many steaming loafs as punks and hard rockers.
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