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Curious back in 1988 – a ballet score? Tell that to The Wedding Present – this strange record, originally conceived as a collaboration for the Edinburgh Festival with Scottish choreographer Michael Clark, possibly plays more coherently now. While dominated by big hitters (“New Big Prinz” “Jerusalem”), the album’s uneven mixture of humorous non-sequitur, sound art and stout indie-rock has come to feel like a microcosm of the band’s entire career. Mark E Smith, throughout, supplies cut-up vituperation.