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Saturday, July 26, 2003 

Whilst going through the back issues, finally found the column where Glenn McDonald explains the War Against Silence. Say what you will about the man (and I'm obviously a fan), but it's hard to argue with this: "At its most mundane, music criticism should be a service industry, an attempt to help the reader guess whether there's enough chance that they'd like the album that they ought to buy it and find out." Whatever else I may not agree with McDonald on, most music criticism would be much better if it followed that dictum.



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