45 REVELATIONS
CHRISTGAU CONSUMER GUIDE
LETTERS
ROBERT SMITH
GETTING PAST JOHN FOGERTY
ROCK 'N' ROLL NEWS
There are probably all sorts of ways (50?) to justify avoiding this album, but the one that first occurred to me was this: it appeared that the yuppie chronicler of life between the wars had, in pursuit of a much needed change of pace, taken a musicological approach to that trendiest of tragedies, South Africa.