Seizure City

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Swedish young skankers Seizure City are a new outfit with the Clash and the Skatalites looming large in their pedigree. Reedy kickass singer Tanja knows her glottal stops and is an archaeologist's daughter. Let's hope the band takes off so she can have a proper career in the music business instead of sliding back into the seedy gloom of the contract excavations!

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