The Auteurs : Rolling Stone

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After Murder Park

Working with the super-producer Steve Albini in the haunted Abbey Road studio, the Auteurs prove they've lost zero edge since their New Wave debut and 1994's grimier Now I'm a Cowboy. This third release is like a rock & roll dispatch from a parallel universe: glam, punk, early Bowie and the Beatles...

1996 RS: 3of 5 Stars

1994

Biography

Luke Haines was too sardonic and overeducated to rouse the masses at Wembley Stadium, so he deployed power chords as a framework for his unrequited, self- referential show biz obsessions. On the band's debut, "Don't Trust the Stars" and "Starstruck" pun off the connections between astrological coincidences and showbiz success, while "American Guitars" mocked rock- god aspirations as well as the Br...

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