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BORN: 1984 in New York. Armed with chiming, steely, detuned guitars, Dustdevils are drunken purveyors of a glorious, buzzing fission. If their second-generation NYC dissonance has gotten them labeled a tired, Sonic Youth-derived headache, the band's long history (stretching back to 1984), it's more extensive palette of tempos and its easier-on-the-ears vocals (early on, anyway) render such dismissals unfounded.
The Devils developed naturally and independently they just had the misfortune to customize, expand upon and modify some of the same no wave-and Glenn Branca-derived themes that were SY hallmarks. The group's early evolutionary work attests to the…
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