Old music: Magazine – A Song from Under the Floorboards

This four-minute distillation of Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground didn't trouble the charts in 1980, but it remains one of the best-loved tracks by Howard Devoto's post-punk pioneersBasing a song on a novel by Dostoyevsky is not the action of the typical pop group, but then Howard Devoto is not a typical pop star. For a start most of the singles he has produced over the course of more than 30 years have failed to trouble the charts; perhaps his intellectual – some would say clever-clever â...

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