![]() ![]() With gut-wrenching honesty, Albertine documents experiences that “left an indelible emotional imprint”. ![]() It’s a philosophy reflected in this magnificent memoir, which wears its heart on its sleeve. “It’s OK not to be perfect, to show the workings of your life and your mind in your songs and your clothes,” writes Albertine. The idiosyncratic Slits wore clothes inside-out, seams and labels showing, inspired by Vivienne Westwood. ![]() It’s fuelled a lot of my work.” Sitting on her childhood bed in her mother’s council flat she dreamed of escape and there wrote the Slits song Typical Girls. Told in a present-tense that endows a raw immediacy, Albertine’s story is bruised by breakages, from broken homes to broken bands, but she spins pain into creativity: “A burning ball of anger and rebelliousness started to grow within me. ![]()
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