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O.M.F.O.: We Are the Shepherds

By D.M. Edwards

O.M.F.O.’s merging of Eastern folk and Kraftwerkian dub on the Essay label is therefore only as surprising as, say, finding Osama bin Laden in his cave listening to Joe Meek. [9 January 2007]

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