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THE UNCUT REVIEW OF 2022

BLONDIE
Against The Odds 1974 – 1982 UME/THE NUMERO GROUP
Long delayed, this deep survey of Blondie’s golden years – covering their formation in 1874 to their hiatus in 1982 – doubled as a shadow history of New York’s creative heyday, ranging from ’60s girl group covers to outer-boroughs garage rock, Bowery punk to Studio 54 swank. Aided by copious demos and liner notes that proved as revelatory as the remastered studio albums, this showed that there was far more to Blondie than the hits.