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The Sugarcubes

Cold Sweat

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Kevin Alexander
Feb 18, 2022
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Cold Sweat is the second single off of the band’s debut album, Life’s Too Good, and my favorite. It’s hard to articulate, but the song has a strange undercurrent of urgency. Bjork also really shows her vocal range here as well.

I first heard the band while in junior high. A friend of mine on the block got the tape from her older brot…

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