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Big Songs, Little Creatures

Mirah’s Music for Insects

Some time around the early ’80s, the concept album got tired. Stumbling out of a golden age that produced The Wall, Tommy, Quadrophenia, and Ziggy Stardust, the infamously pretentious genre’s ambitions soured into wank-rock clichés. This was partly due to the stale predictability of so many concept-album storylines, which followed the struggles of a misunderstood […]

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