The Slits - Trapped Animal

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Album Review

Release date: 20 October 2009

The Slits - Trapped Animal

Album review: The Slits - 'Trapped Animal'

Seminal punkers keeping one foot stuck in the past

It’d be churlish to expect precocious post-punk priestesses The Slits , teenage underminers of Sex Pistols ’ cocky masculinity, to stay caged in the past. The primitive, untutored musical naivety that made songs like ‘Typical Girls’ so idiosyncratic and interesting couldn’t last. What wouldn’t be churlish, though, is to expect them to keep pushing themselves. 1981’s ‘Return...

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