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The Clean is one of those bands that have been championed by rock critics for20 years while the public shrugs and promises to check them out someday, rightafter making millionaires of the Strokes and the Vines. Well, Mr. and Ms. Public,here's your chance to make up (slightly) for two decades of procrastinationand catch up with a Reader's Digest version of one of the most brilliantgarage outfits of all time. Formed in New Zealand in 1978 by Hamish and DavidKilgour and Robert Scott, the Clean has intermittently graced the world withtheir mutant blend of Kinks/Who primalism, surf guitar energy, noise pop experimentationand Nuggets-primed lo-fi garage rock. Anthology documents the Clean'sfirst 20 years with early singles and a handful of outtakes, but since veryfew people own any of the albums to begin with, there isn't a great dangerof repetition. Find Anthology and Clean your ears now.