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Life Exploding in Every Direction
Sam Cooke: 'Blowin in the Wind' (Live at the Copacabana) + Swagger + Freedom + The End of One Movie + The Start of Another
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Peter C. Baker
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Somewhere Inside I Wanted To Smile Again
The Beatles: 'Dear Prudence' + Silence, secrets, and lies + The desire to shrink + The desire to live
Getting At The Shape Of Loneliness
Neil Young: 'Hey Hey, My My' + Going nowhere + Becoming something
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Sam Kahn
Conjured and Dismissed
Fiction (!) from Garth Greenwell. John Taverner: 'Westron Wynde Mass' + Staff/patient bonding in hospital + That sense only non-sense can convey
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Time Travel Is Painful
Oasis: 'Wonderwall' + Cairo to Hull (and back again) + Pangalactic Gargleblasters (on ice)
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Youssef Rakha
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Silhouettes, So Far And Close
The Clientele: 'I Dreamed of You, Maria' + The haze of early parenting + The old becoming new + The new becoming old + Steamrollers + Meat-grinders
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Peter C. Baker
Don't It Make You Feel Alive?
LCD Soundsystem: 'Get Innocuous!' + Dancing all night + Sparks + Rail whiskey + Sunrise and regret
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Cat Jones
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Mexico Rock City
Café Tacvba: 'Chilanga Banda'
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Pedro Gerson
The Vampire Diaries
Vampire Weekend: ‘I Stand Corrected’ + Standing corrected + NYC dreaming + Magazine scheming + Jews on horses
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Peter C. Baker
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Tell It And Think It And Speak It And Breathe It
Bob Dylan: 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' + being 14 + ugly basement remodels circa 1970
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Leslie Carr
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Bonus Tracks // Phil and Agathe Elverum's 'Morning Listening Diary'
What a musician (Mount Eerie, The Microphones) and his daughter listened to in the pre-vaccine heart of the COVID pandemic.
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Phil Elverum
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Suddenly I Could See A Future
Nicola Miller + The Beatles: 'I Will' + Our parents' cassettes + Our kids' lullabies + Chasing vocal resonance control
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