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She Drew The Gun
Behave Myself
(Submarine Cat Records)
★★★★
A PROUD socialist feminist hailing from Birkenhead, on her new record Louisa Roach — She Drew The Gun — kicks up a revolutionary storm.
Over gutsy electro-pop recorded by Ross Orton (The Fall, Arctic Monkeys), she targets corruption, abuse, inequality, the patriarchy and the ruthless ruling class.
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