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It’s possible to take the story around an album’s creation as nothing but window dressing, as fodder for PR efforts. Not every album has a story worth telling, and not every one that does can make the album bigger or deeper. Sometimes the circumstances of an album’s creation are merely coincidental to the thing itself. But sometimes, it’s essential to how it blooms in our understanding.
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