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like a Country-music Columbus making the mainstream’s first contact with hard rock (“Hicktown”)

first ever shows at London’s Wembley Stadium in July last summer

The plastic hangtag is over 90% recycled and the exterior is printed with soy ink

Gift: The 4AD Years (Transparent Red Vinyl) AwaitingStock What will Darth Vader haveThe extraordinary impact Xmal Deutschland had upon British audiences in the early Eighties is difficult to convey forty years on. A spell was cast by the staccato rhythms, unmediated channels and mysterious (to us) language of their music, and by the vision and strength of the women involved. Their breakthrough support slot with Cocteau Twins and first two albums with 4AD dazzled and dug deep, speaking in tones and temperatures unlike any band before