‘Searching for music is like searching for God… there’s an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable.’ So reckoned the great David Bowie, and few have ‘searche

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Suicide singer ALAN VEGA was a writer and performer like no other, willing to go to any extreme to force a reaction, whether wonder, hatred or horror. As his key early solo albums re-emerge, his balls, brilliance and bloody-mindedness still blow the mind. As bandmate Martin Rev attests, “Alan was the most totally dedicated artist I’ve ever met.”

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