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Afu-Ra Whirlwind Thru Cities/Trilogy of Terror 12" (Gee Street/EMI) Yo Afu! The missing link between a young Jeru and a clinically insane Group Home tears a new one for ya; à la Primo. 8 (SC) Natacha Atlas Gedida (Beggar's Banquet) The voice of Transglobal Underground brings on more modern Arabic pop, with less beats than her last one. 8 (RB) Telex I Don't Like Music (Crammed/Fusion III) Belgian Kraftwerk manqué get postdated props from Carl Craig, P5's Konishi and other remixers. 7 (RB) Julian Lennon Photograph Smile (Columbia) Julian Lennon? C'mon! Everyone knows that Gazette writer Mark Lepage is Julian Lennon. 6 (CY) Flacco Rivera Flacco Coulo (Swarffinger/Brilliant) Any similarities to persons living or dead... like say, Jon Spencer... is not entirely accidental. 6 (RB) Swing Cats Self-titled (Cleopatra) The scrapings from the bottom of the barrel of a dying genre. 4 (JC) Boney James Body Language (Warner Bros.) Master P meets Kenny G? 4 (CY) Bare Jr. Boo-Tay (Epic) Shi-tay. 3 (CY)
Various Artists Humanary Stew: A Tribute to Alice Cooper (Deadline/Triage) Eleven has-beens like Dokken, Dio and Daltrey take stabs at classics. Kind of like watching Buddy Hackett attempt Othello. 2 (JC)
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