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The Rise and Fall of Elastica

Justine Frischmann co-founded Swade with her then-boyfriend Brett Anderson and served as its original guitarist before Bernard Butler arrived. Elastica's debut single, The Punky Stutter, arrived in the fall of 1993 to near-instant acclaim. By the winter of 1994, Elastica had already issued a follow-up single, Line Up, and developed a bespoke sound borrowing heavily from late 70s post-puck bands like Wire and The Stranglers. Pulp by the mid-90s were more than a decade and a half old. Jarvis Cocker had started Pulp in 1978 at age 15 and went through several band lineups and indie L

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