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Autumn is the most Enya of seasons so as a gauze of rain obscures the increasingly denuded branches outside we’re re-upping our 2015 interview with the Irish singer. We’ve also got out PSB Beyond The Hits feature and David Toop on Dr John’s Gris Gris
#ThePortal: Archive Dive
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#ThePortal: Archive Dive
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November 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Autumn is the most Enya of seasons so as a gauze of rain obscures the increasingly denuded branches outside we’re re-upping our 2015 interview with the Irish singer. We’ve also got out PSB Beyond The Hits feature and David Toop on Dr John’s Gris Gris
#ThePortal: Archive Dive
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#ThePortal: Archive Dive
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#CharliXCX and #JohnCale have released a video for gothic pop dirge belter ‘House’, written to appear on the soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming adaptation of Emily Brontē’s novel Wuthering Heights.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
#CharliXCX and #JohnCale have released a video for gothic pop dirge belter ‘House’, written to appear on the soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming adaptation of Emily Brontē’s novel Wuthering Heights.
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Croatian brothers Alen and Nenad Sinkauz meet the Chicago cornet player for some interstellar sonics played live in brutalist venues
Roj Osa meets #RobMazurek - Beton Kino
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Roj Osa meets #RobMazurek - Beton Kino
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November 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Croatian brothers Alen and Nenad Sinkauz meet the Chicago cornet player for some interstellar sonics played live in brutalist venues
Roj Osa meets #RobMazurek - Beton Kino
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Roj Osa meets #RobMazurek - Beton Kino
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'For all of the album’s visceral images, it’s not the ones of horror or existential angst which linger longest but rather the little details of everyday joy - the small mercies.'
Mercy by #ArmandHammer and #TheAlchemist is tQ's Album of the Week
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Mercy by #ArmandHammer and #TheAlchemist is tQ's Album of the Week
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November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
'For all of the album’s visceral images, it’s not the ones of horror or existential angst which linger longest but rather the little details of everyday joy - the small mercies.'
Mercy by #ArmandHammer and #TheAlchemist is tQ's Album of the Week
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Mercy by #ArmandHammer and #TheAlchemist is tQ's Album of the Week
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'Perhaps because of her deliberate self-placement within a lineage of male artists like Ginsberg and Rimbaud, Smith's persona was cerebral, ascetic – aligned more closely with a nascent avant-garde literary tradition, or what she called ‘rock poetry’'
#PattiSmith’s Horses at 50
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#PattiSmith’s Horses at 50
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November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
'Perhaps because of her deliberate self-placement within a lineage of male artists like Ginsberg and Rimbaud, Smith's persona was cerebral, ascetic – aligned more closely with a nascent avant-garde literary tradition, or what she called ‘rock poetry’'
#PattiSmith’s Horses at 50
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#PattiSmith’s Horses at 50
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"My mother always used to say, ‘that’s the best British singer there ever was’ and I do think she’s hard to beat. She has everything. She has the interpretation, she has the feel, she has this incredibly gorgeous voice."
#TanitaTikaram on #DustySpringfield - Dusty In Memphis
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#TanitaTikaram on #DustySpringfield - Dusty In Memphis
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November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"My mother always used to say, ‘that’s the best British singer there ever was’ and I do think she’s hard to beat. She has everything. She has the interpretation, she has the feel, she has this incredibly gorgeous voice."
#TanitaTikaram on #DustySpringfield - Dusty In Memphis
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#TanitaTikaram on #DustySpringfield - Dusty In Memphis
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'Based out of a similar neck of the Pacific Northwest’s woods that brought us Twin Peaks, Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy and Mandy by Panos Cosmatos, Earth Ball navigate the lure of nature with a weird bit between their teeth.'
Earth Ball - Outside Over There
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Earth Ball - Outside Over There
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November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
'Based out of a similar neck of the Pacific Northwest’s woods that brought us Twin Peaks, Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy and Mandy by Panos Cosmatos, Earth Ball navigate the lure of nature with a weird bit between their teeth.'
Earth Ball - Outside Over There
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Earth Ball - Outside Over There
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Darran Anderson reflects on the work of the great Dennis Potter, an artist who saw the potential of television as medium, and a working class writer so "imaginative in the ways he defied containment"
How #DennisPotter’s TV Plays Were Guides to the Purgatory of the Modern Age
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How #DennisPotter’s TV Plays Were Guides to the Purgatory of the Modern Age
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November 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Darran Anderson reflects on the work of the great Dennis Potter, an artist who saw the potential of television as medium, and a working class writer so "imaginative in the ways he defied containment"
How #DennisPotter’s TV Plays Were Guides to the Purgatory of the Modern Age
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How #DennisPotter’s TV Plays Were Guides to the Purgatory of the Modern Age
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'Revisiting Horses, we find not just rebellion, but wild, unbridled desire – urgent, corporeal, and impossible to contain.'
Many Happy Returns to #PattiSmith’s Horses, which turns 50 today!
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Many Happy Returns to #PattiSmith’s Horses, which turns 50 today!
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November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
'Revisiting Horses, we find not just rebellion, but wild, unbridled desire – urgent, corporeal, and impossible to contain.'
Many Happy Returns to #PattiSmith’s Horses, which turns 50 today!
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Many Happy Returns to #PattiSmith’s Horses, which turns 50 today!
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'Aerial stands strong in the firmament of the very best Kate Bush records. There is a real artist’s confidence in its lambent quality, its mature elegance, that rewards repeated listening two decades on'
#KateBush's Aerial at 20
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#KateBush's Aerial at 20
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November 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
'Aerial stands strong in the firmament of the very best Kate Bush records. There is a real artist’s confidence in its lambent quality, its mature elegance, that rewards repeated listening two decades on'
#KateBush's Aerial at 20
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#KateBush's Aerial at 20
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'Some might consider it heresy to cast Bob Mould and Grant Hart as their era’s very own Lennon and McCartney but their respective MO of searing introspection and romantic flair gave them a similar creative friction'
Reissue of the Week: #HüskerDü’s 1985: The Miracle Year
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Reissue of the Week: #HüskerDü’s 1985: The Miracle Year
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November 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
'Some might consider it heresy to cast Bob Mould and Grant Hart as their era’s very own Lennon and McCartney but their respective MO of searing introspection and romantic flair gave them a similar creative friction'
Reissue of the Week: #HüskerDü’s 1985: The Miracle Year
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Reissue of the Week: #HüskerDü’s 1985: The Miracle Year
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OMD, The Beatles, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald... find out what else the pop/folk singer songwriter picked here:
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OMD, The Beatles, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald... find out what else the pop/folk singer songwriter picked here:
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November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Become a Quietus Subscriber Plus tier member to access a playlist of #TanitaTikaram's favourite music (amongst many other wonderful perks)...
OMD, The Beatles, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald... find out what else the pop/folk singer songwriter picked here:
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OMD, The Beatles, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald... find out what else the pop/folk singer songwriter picked here:
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Kate French Morris reports from the ancient city of Guimarães in Portugal, where #TheseNewPuritans and a host of local acts guide her through the rain-lashed, autumnal gloom
Sounds from an Ancient City: Highlights of #MuchoFlow
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Sounds from an Ancient City: Highlights of #MuchoFlow
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November 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Kate French Morris reports from the ancient city of Guimarães in Portugal, where #TheseNewPuritans and a host of local acts guide her through the rain-lashed, autumnal gloom
Sounds from an Ancient City: Highlights of #MuchoFlow
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Sounds from an Ancient City: Highlights of #MuchoFlow
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"What she did in all the songbooks was reintroduce that music to a new audience, it was music that really went into people’s heads and broke a lot of barriers."
#TanitaTikaram on #EllaFitzgeralds Sings The #ColePorter Songbook
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#TanitaTikaram on #EllaFitzgeralds Sings The #ColePorter Songbook
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November 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
"What she did in all the songbooks was reintroduce that music to a new audience, it was music that really went into people’s heads and broke a lot of barriers."
#TanitaTikaram on #EllaFitzgeralds Sings The #ColePorter Songbook
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#TanitaTikaram on #EllaFitzgeralds Sings The #ColePorter Songbook
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#OneohtrixPointNever has shared a new track, ‘Cherry Blue’. Arriving as the fifth song to be unveiled from forthcoming album Tranquilizer, the track is backed by a video from French contemporary artist Pol Taburet, which you can watch here:
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November 8, 2025 at 8:58 PM
#OneohtrixPointNever has shared a new track, ‘Cherry Blue’. Arriving as the fifth song to be unveiled from forthcoming album Tranquilizer, the track is backed by a video from French contemporary artist Pol Taburet, which you can watch here:
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With the publication of his new book, Grime, Roony Keefe talks to Arusa Qureshi about Rhythm Division, Grime Gran and how he became the documentarian of the grime scene
Our Generation’s Punk: Roony ‘Risky Roadz’ Keefe on 20 Years of #Grime
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Our Generation’s Punk: Roony ‘Risky Roadz’ Keefe on 20 Years of #Grime
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November 8, 2025 at 4:32 PM
With the publication of his new book, Grime, Roony Keefe talks to Arusa Qureshi about Rhythm Division, Grime Gran and how he became the documentarian of the grime scene
Our Generation’s Punk: Roony ‘Risky Roadz’ Keefe on 20 Years of #Grime
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Our Generation’s Punk: Roony ‘Risky Roadz’ Keefe on 20 Years of #Grime
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#TheCure are releasing a new concert film, Show Of A Lost World. Directed by filmmaker and longtime collaborator Nick Wickham, the film was captured during the band’s November 2024 performance at London’s Troxy to celebrate the release of Songs Of A Lost World.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
#TheCure are releasing a new concert film, Show Of A Lost World. Directed by filmmaker and longtime collaborator Nick Wickham, the film was captured during the band’s November 2024 performance at London’s Troxy to celebrate the release of Songs Of A Lost World.
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"This isn’t even the best Aretha album, but it’s got all the classics on, and an amazing band. I was feeling very nostalgic when I did the list and I grew up listening to this because my dad had it."
#TanitaTikaram on #ArethaFranklin - Aretha In Paris
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#TanitaTikaram on #ArethaFranklin - Aretha In Paris
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November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
"This isn’t even the best Aretha album, but it’s got all the classics on, and an amazing band. I was feeling very nostalgic when I did the list and I grew up listening to this because my dad had it."
#TanitaTikaram on #ArethaFranklin - Aretha In Paris
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#TanitaTikaram on #ArethaFranklin - Aretha In Paris
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'One-eyed ex-pat Alaskan Laird Barron’s writing is an enthralling mix of Lovecraftian cosmic horror, noir, science-fiction, espionage thriller and superhero mythology.'
#LairdBarron's The Imago Sequence is No 7 in The Quietus 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st Century
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#LairdBarron's The Imago Sequence is No 7 in The Quietus 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st Century
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November 8, 2025 at 1:00 AM
'One-eyed ex-pat Alaskan Laird Barron’s writing is an enthralling mix of Lovecraftian cosmic horror, noir, science-fiction, espionage thriller and superhero mythology.'
#LairdBarron's The Imago Sequence is No 7 in The Quietus 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st Century
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#LairdBarron's The Imago Sequence is No 7 in The Quietus 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st Century
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"It’s trying to create this world, and it’s really so heartening that it was a huge album, because it’s really taking risks: in the sequencing, in the songwriting, it’s very special"
#TanitaTikaram on #OMD - Architecture & Morality
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#TanitaTikaram on #OMD - Architecture & Morality
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November 7, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"It’s trying to create this world, and it’s really so heartening that it was a huge album, because it’s really taking risks: in the sequencing, in the songwriting, it’s very special"
#TanitaTikaram on #OMD - Architecture & Morality
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#TanitaTikaram on #OMD - Architecture & Morality
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'A Bram Stoker Award winning novel, The Fisherman is a masterpiece of cosmic horror that contains elements of Lovecraft, Moby Dick and the ghost stories of M.R. James.'
#JohnLangan's The Fisherman is No 16 in The Quietus 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st Century so far
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#JohnLangan's The Fisherman is No 16 in The Quietus 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st Century so far
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November 7, 2025 at 9:01 PM
'A Bram Stoker Award winning novel, The Fisherman is a masterpiece of cosmic horror that contains elements of Lovecraft, Moby Dick and the ghost stories of M.R. James.'
#JohnLangan's The Fisherman is No 16 in The Quietus 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st Century so far
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#JohnLangan's The Fisherman is No 16 in The Quietus 25 best pieces of #Horror Fiction of the 21st Century so far
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'A remarkable record; a ten-out-of-ten, five-star masterpiece.'
Many Happy Returns to #GZA's Liquid Swords, which turns 30 today!
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Many Happy Returns to #GZA's Liquid Swords, which turns 30 today!
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November 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
'A remarkable record; a ten-out-of-ten, five-star masterpiece.'
Many Happy Returns to #GZA's Liquid Swords, which turns 30 today!
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Many Happy Returns to #GZA's Liquid Swords, which turns 30 today!
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'1985: The Miracle Year catches Hüsker Dü at their most inventive, straddling the line between hardcore ferocity and pop accessibility while revealing a potent mix of raw power, emotional maturity and musical ambition'
Reissue of the Week: #HüskerDü’s 1985: The Miracle Year
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Reissue of the Week: #HüskerDü’s 1985: The Miracle Year
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November 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
'1985: The Miracle Year catches Hüsker Dü at their most inventive, straddling the line between hardcore ferocity and pop accessibility while revealing a potent mix of raw power, emotional maturity and musical ambition'
Reissue of the Week: #HüskerDü’s 1985: The Miracle Year
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Reissue of the Week: #HüskerDü’s 1985: The Miracle Year
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London's finest neo-jazz wreckin' cru SLY & THE FAMILY DRONE tear it up in south London for the first time in ages tomorrow night. Playing at the brand new, independent multi-use space, MULTI STORY in the heart of Peckham. Support from 3D JESUS & NNJA RIOT.
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Tickets here:
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November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
London's finest neo-jazz wreckin' cru SLY & THE FAMILY DRONE tear it up in south London for the first time in ages tomorrow night. Playing at the brand new, independent multi-use space, MULTI STORY in the heart of Peckham. Support from 3D JESUS & NNJA RIOT.
Tickets here:
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Tickets here:
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'The language of Aerial is rapture at the beauty of nature, the extraordinary in the everyday - its musical language as broad, diverse, and beautiful as its subjects would suggest.'
Happy Birthday to #KateBush's Aerial, which turns 20 today!
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Happy Birthday to #KateBush's Aerial, which turns 20 today!
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November 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
'The language of Aerial is rapture at the beauty of nature, the extraordinary in the everyday - its musical language as broad, diverse, and beautiful as its subjects would suggest.'
Happy Birthday to #KateBush's Aerial, which turns 20 today!
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Happy Birthday to #KateBush's Aerial, which turns 20 today!
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