Words: David McNamee Behind the myriad pop hooks of Marnie Stern’s critically-adored debut album, there’s a constantly shifting pattern of shimmering guitar glissando. She is finger-tapping, the accursed technique of Eighties big hair guitarists. It’s a hallucinogenic texture that hooks the listener’s ears on the snagging rain of notes and takes advantage of the hypnotic…

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