Music Is History
The production was dense and menacing, louder and harsher than any record we had made, and so were the lyrics. The album took on prescription drug addiction, the way the media distorts the news, the risks of technology, and the financial crisis. And that’s just on the title track. There’s another song, “75 Bars (Black’s Reconstruction),” where Tari
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Different as it sounds, this kind of triumphalism had something in common with paralysed heartbreak. One rested in arrogant assurance, while the other rested in despair. Both saw the future as something offstage, rather than as the thing we were always creating in every moment, whether we acknowledged it or not. And both forgot that essential truth
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