Businessmen & Ghosts | ||||
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Released | September 2007 | |||
Genre | Electronic music, electronica, shoegaze | |||
Length | 1:44:21 | |||
Label | Deaf Dumb & Blind | |||
Working for a Nuclear Free City chronology | ||||
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Source | Rating |
Exclaim! | (favourable) link |
NME | (8/10) (07/26/2008, p.33) |
Pitchfork Media | (7.6/10) link |
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