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| | The Observer | Review | Godspeed You! Black Emperor: adjusting to fame after 28 Days later |
 | | In contrast to the thriving metropolis of today, Montreal was a depressed city, riven by linguistic conflict, economically compromised by the flight of the monied anglophone community. |
 | | And so Montreal's most troubled sons and daughters - who bridged the city's two language communities - were able to articulate a despair and sense of grievance that chimed with the decay and suspicion around them. |
 | | All this makes them one of the most compelling and intriguing rock bands today - a much more hardline version of the right-on, privacy-seeking, avant-garde Radiohead of Kid A, a distant, infinitely more romantic variation on anarcho-irritants Chumbawamba. |
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