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    HM Magazine #81/Royalty Wears Thorns
    Royalty Wears Thorns — Uriah's Letter cover

    Royalty Wears Thorns

    Uriah's Letter

    Reviewed by David M. Pogge

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    Label independentHM Magazine #81January/February 2000
    lo-fipunk

    Sounds like someone threw a boombox in the middle of the garage. To their credit, I'm sure it was a nice boom box. Aside from the muffled recording, what is here are four songs from a young band with a lot of potential. This is what you'd call raw punk rock. It's not punk because it sounds like MxPx (sounds nothing like it), but because they obviously don't care about fitting in anywhere. They're just playing what they want to play.

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