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AT THE SIX-MINUTE mark of Talk Talk’s “Ascension Day,” the music suddenly stops. The song spends its duration retreating until it suddenly
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If it’s generally seen as a presumptuous or self-aggrandizing move to repurpose the name of the band that achieved relative stardom
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