Love is many things: a line in a Valentine's card; a verse in a poem; a collection of confectionary; a clutch of wilting hyacinths. For 21-year-old Cory Clifford, it's Springsteen; Edwyn Collins; lyrical idiom; double entendre. With February 14th over and done with for another year however, why would we raise such an irrevocably irrelevant debate? Well, because Clifford's great(est) work under the guise of
Pinebocks is entitled Love is grand(ish): recalling Dent May howling over a reedy trumpet in Mangum's Aeroplane Over the Sea, it's love at first exposure.
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