The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.
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You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.
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I'm usually pretty careful about that kind of thing, but sometimes the music just pushes me into a direction that I can't really avoid following.
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