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“It’s a reference to The Cure’s song,” lead singer Jo Bevan tells Music Week. “They did a version of Grinding Halt in a Peel session, where they changed all of the lyrics to snippets of Paul Morley’s review of their first album, which was...unfavourable.”

Wearing their influences on their sleeves, the Fierce Panda signings released a self-titled album digitally earlier this year, with a physical version coming ...