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Punk Planet: Melt-Banana

As with many of its cultural exports, Japan’s punk is a little different. Epitomised by bands such as the percussion-heavy Boredoms, the metal-heavy Boris, and psychedelic OOIOO, its brand of noise-rock tempers avant-garde intensity with kitschy dollops of fun. Fastest, sharpest and strangest of the lot, though, is Melt-Banana,

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