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Second albums can be tough (as the saying goes, you spend your whole life making the first album and six months making the second). The so-called “sophomore slump” exists for
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I don’t like the word “epic” — it’s worn and pedestrian and often misused in much the way “incredible” and “awesome” are. But it’s wrong to blame the words. People’s
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Two guys sit in a bar, beers in hand, discussing their next musical move: “I’ve got it, I know what we need to do. This whole dream pop/shoegaze movement is
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Musical movements churn back on a 20-year wheel, but you can’t be sure what genres will withstand the tumults of time. I never thought the electropop of 1980s mainstays Erasure,