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Rat Silo Returns With Stripped-Down Rock

By John Lucas

The Georgia Straight | February 1, 2008

Some of Rat Silo sounds excellent and some of it seems as if it would benefit from a bigger budget and tighter production. But as the aforementioned bio warns, “Don’t expect the next one to sound exactly like this one.”

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