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New Placebo

One of the few guitar-driven bands I enjoy, Placebo, has a new album out. It appears to rock out, as with their previous material, in the vein of The Smiths, Depeche Mode, The Cure, and other angsty-but-fun ’80s alternative regulars. Now if only they would tour here again…