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The Men
Open Your Heart (Sacred Bones)
If we were to come up with a taxonomy of ways people praise music, a lot of the categories would surely focus on some extramusical rupture the record caused.
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Ben Von Wildenhaus
Great Melodies From Around (Riot Bear Recording Co.)
In Retromania, Simon Reynolds quotes Brian Eno from a 1991 Artforum article: “Curatorship is arguably the big new job of our times. … In an age saturated with new artifacts and information, it is perhaps the curator, the connection maker, who is the new storyteller, the meta-author.”
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