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Sputnik Music, in conjunction with Finch, is currently giving away two tickets to their New York City concert on Wednesday March 13th. Check out the contest page and make a submission. Contest ends March 12th.
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of March 5, 2013. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Autechre – Exai (Warp Records)
Ashley Monroe – Like a Rose (Warner Bros.)
Blue hawaii – untogether (Alternative Distribution Alliance)
Boz Scaggs – Memphis (429 Records)
Caitlin Rose – The Stand-In (ATO RECORDS)
The Cave Singers – Naomi (Jagjaguwar)
Chelsea Light Moving – Chelsea Light Moving (Matador Records)
Cloud Cult – Love (Rebel Group)
The Demigodz – Killmatic (Dirty Version Record)
Enforcer – Death By Fire (Nuclear Blast)
Hatchet – Dawn Of The End (The End Records)
Hiromi – Move (Telarc)
Hollis Brown – Ride On The Train (Alive Records)
How To Destroy Angels – Welcome Oblivion (Columbia)
Jason Graves – Tomb Raider – Original Soundtrack (Sumthing Else Music Works)
Javelin – Hi Beams (Luaka Bop)
Jimi Hendrix – People, Hell & Angels (Legacy)
Josh Ritter – Beast in Its Tracks (Pytheas Recordings)
Kate Nash – Girl Talk (INGROOVES)
Kvelertak – Meir (Roadrunner Records)
Krokus – Dirty Dynamite (The End Records)
Madeleine Peyroux – The Blue Room (Decca)
Making Movies – A La Deriva (Independent)
The Men – New Moon (Sacred Bones) — Adam Downer
Mishka – Ocean Is…
Congrats to logman456 for winning the Death Grips album giveaway. Your prize should be headed to you shortly.
Sputnikmusic is currently holding a Linkin Park contest. One lucky winner will receive a CD copy of LIVING THINGS signed by the band, a pair of Rob Bourdon signature Vater drumsticks, a Linkin Park t-shirt and band stickers & buttons! Also included is a one year membership to the official Linkin Park fan club: LP Underground. Members receive early entrance to Linkin Park shows, chances for Meet & Greets, access to concert pre-sale tickets and best seats, exclusive music, live video chats with band members and much more. So, go here for more details.
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 12, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Assemblage 23 – Bruise (Metropolis Records)
Azealia Banks – 1991 (Interscope Records)
BoDeans – American Made (Megaforce)
Bouncing Souls – Comet (Rise Records)
Celldweller – Wish Upon a Blackstar (FiXT Music)
Charli XCX – You’re the One (IAMSOUND)
Alice Cohen – Pink Keys (Olde English Spelling Bee)
The dB’s – Falling Off The Sky (Bar None Records)
Decoded Feedback – disKonnekt (Metropolis Records)
Dent May – Do Things (Paw Tracks)
Eternal Tapestry – Dawn In 2 Dimensions (Digitalis)
Friends – Manifest! (Fat Possum)
Future of the Left – The Plot Against Common Sense (Xtra Mile)
Giant Sand – Tucson (Fire Records)
Grace Potter & the Nocturnals –…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of June 05, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
The Agonist – Prisoners (InsideOut Music)
Architects – Daybreaker (Century Media)
A Silent Film – Sand & Snow (Self Released)
The Bamboos – Medicine Man (Tru Thoughts)
Be’lakor – Of Breath And Bone (Self Released) — Kyle Ward
Eric Benet – The One (Jordan House Records)
Bigg Jus – Machines That Make Civilization Fun (Mush Records)
Big K.R.I.T. – Live from the Underground (Def Jam Records)
William Brittelle – Loving the Chambered Nautilus [Digital Only] (New Amsterdam)
Bobby Brown – The Masterpiece (Bronx Bridge Entertainment)
Candlemass – Psalms For The Dead (Napalm Records)
Brandi Carlile – Bear Creek (Columbia)
Chris Robinson Brotherhood – Big Moon Ritual (Silver Arrow Records)
Circus Maximus – Nine (Frontiers Records)
Shawn Colvin – All Fall Down (Nonesuch)
The Cory Smoot Experiment – When Worlds Collide (Metal Blade)
Crocodiles – Endless Flowers (Frenchkiss)
Curren$y – The Stoned Immaculate (Warner Bros.)
Def Jef – Just A Poet With Soul (Delicious Vinyl)
d’Eon – LP (Hippos in Tanks)
DeWalta – Wander {EU} (Haunt Music)
Dntel – Aimlessness (Pampa Records)
Fear Factory – The Industrialist (Candlelight) — Deviant
Hawthorne Heights – Hope [EP] (Cardboard Empire)
The Hives – Lex Hives (Disques Hives) — Rudy Klapper
Kelly Hogan – I Like To Keep Myself In Pain (ANTI Records)
Alan Jackson – Thirty Miles West (Capitol)
The Jacka – The Sentence (SICCNESS)
Japandroids – Celebration Rock (Polyvinyl Records)
Kool Keith – Love…
Art By Numbers’ debut album, Reticence: The Musical, will be streaming on the site until the end of Tuesday, so if you haven’t checked it out yet, you better do it soon. They have been compared to everyone from The Human Abstract and Protest the Hero to Coheed & Cambria and The Mars Volta. Give it a listen here.
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 29, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
2:54 – 2:54 (Fat Possum Records)
Art By Numbers – Reticence: The Musical (Art By Numbers)
Wade Bowen – The Given (Sony Nashville)
Crystal Bowersox – Once Upon A Time (Crystal Bowersox)
Brotherhood of the Lake – Desperation Is The English Way Vol.1 (Thirty Days Of Night Records)
Delain – We Are The Others (Roadrunner/Warner)
Dogjaw – Pilot (Solidarity Recordings)
The Dig – Midnight Flowers (Buffalo Jump Records)
Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros – Here (Community Music)
Melody Gardot – The Absence (Verve)
Gotthard – Firebirth (Nuclear Blast Records)
Kreator – Phantom Antichrist (Nuclear Blast Records)
Ladyhawke – Anxiety (Universal UK) — Davey Boy
Malice – New Breed Of Godz (Steamhammer/SPV)
Millencolin – Melancholy Connection [CD/DVD] (Burning Heart)
Marissa Nadler – The Sister (Box of Cedar)
Travis Porter – From Day 1 (RCA)
Public Image Ltd – This Is PiL (PiL Official)
Gemma Ray – Island Fire (Bronzerat Records)
Saint Etienne – Words and Music by Saint Etienne (Universal UK)
Sarah Jezebel Deva – Malediction EP [Digital…
Sputnikmusic is streaming the upcoming album, Reticence: The Musical, by progressive metal artists Art By Numbers. They have been compared to everyone from The Human Abstract and Protest the Hero to Coheed & Cambria and The Mars Volta. Give it a listen here.
We are also hosting a give-away for hip-hop artist, Death Grips. We’ve got two copies of their album, The Money Store, to give away. Go here for details.
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 22, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
12 Stones – Beneath The Scars (Executive Music Group) — Davey Boy
16Volt – Skin [Re-Issue] (Metropolis Records)
Kris Allen – Thank You Camellia (RCA)
Blue Foundation – In My Mind I Am Free (Dead People’s Choice)
The Bunny The Bear – The Stomach For It (Victory Records)
Burzum – Umskiptar (Byelobog Productions) — Kyle Ward
Children Of Bodom – Holiday At Lake Bodom (15 Years Of Wasted Youth) (Fontana Universal)
The Cult – Choice Of Weapon (Cooking Vinyl)
Delta Moon – Black Cat Oil (Red Parlor)
Diablo Swing Orchestra – Pandora’s Pinata (Sensory Records)
Electric Wizard – Witchcult Today (Candlelight)
El-P – Cancer for Cure (Fat Possum Records) –– Sobhi Yousseff
Tolga Fidan – Rogue (Vakant)
Freak Kitchen – Land of the Freaks (The Laser’s Edge)
Garbage – Not…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 15, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
American Gospel – Tall Tales Vol.1 (American Gospel)
Beach House – Bloom (Sub Pop)
Bersarin Quartett – II [Physical Release] (Denovali Records)
Best Coast – The Only Place (Mexican Summer) — Robin Smith
Blaq Dahlia – Dark Flower (Skinny Entertainment Records)
BT – Laptop Symphony [Digital Only] (Black Hole Recordings)
Cherri Bomb – This is the End of Control (Hollywood Records) — DaveyBoy
City Rain – Watch Out [EP] (Self Released)
Cornershop – Urban Turban (Ample Play Records)
The Cribs – In the Belly of the Brazen Bull (Wichita)
Will Dutta – Parergon (Just Music)
Fixers – We’ll Be The Moon (Mercury Records)
Garbage – Not Your Kind of People [iTunes Exclusive] (StunVolume)
Godsmack – Live & Inspired (Universal Republic)
Hasta La Vista Social Club – Melt (Inverse Records)
Hospitals – Asleep [EP] (Tangled Talk)
Hot Water Music – Exister (Rise Records) — Adam Thomas
Josephine Foster & the Victor Herrero Band – Perlas (Fire Records)
Killer Mike – R.A.P. Music (WILLIAMS STREET) — Sobhi Youssef
Lahmia – Into the Abyss (Bakerteam Records)
Meiko – The Bright Side (Fantasy)
mewithoutYou – Ten Stories (Pine Street) — Robin Smith
MV & EE – Space Homestead (Woodsist)
Nachtvorst –…
Sputnikmusic is proud to be hosting a free giveaway to coincide with the upcoming new Keane release, Strangeland. Head over here for details and don’t forget to check out the review as well.
We’re also still hosting an exclusive stream from the band Trioscapes. Trioscapes is the instrumental side-project of Between the Buried and Me bassist Dan Briggs and also features Walter Fancourt (tenor saxophone/flute) and Matt Lynch (drums). We will be streaming the eleven-minute title track right here for one more week.
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 8, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Ab-Soul – Control System (TopDawg Ent.) — Sobhi Yousseff
Allegaeon – Formshifter (Metal Blade)
Angelus Apatrida – The Call (Century Media)
At The Skylines – Secrets To Life (Roadrunner Records)
Big K.R.I.T. – K.R.I.T. Wuz Here (Green Streets Ent)
Dana Buoy – Summer Bodies (Lefse)
Mariah Carey – The Essential Mariah Carey (Sony Legacy)
Cattle Decapitation – Monolith of Inhumanity (Metal Blade) — Kyle Ward
Chasing Claymores – Hindsight’s 20/20 (Authentik Artists)
Daytrader – Twelve Years (Rise Records) — Adam Thomas
Heavy Blanket – Heavy Blanket (Outer Battery Records)
Here We Go Magic – A Different Ship (Secretly Canadian)
I Self Devine – The Sound of Low Class Amerika (Rhymesayers)
It Bites – Map of the Past (InsideOut…
Sputnikmusic is currently hosting an exclusive stream from the band Trioscapes. Trioscapes is the instrumental side-project of Between the Buried and Me bassist Dan Briggs and also features Walter Fancourt (tenor saxophone/flute) and Matt Lynch (drums). We will be streaming the eleven-minute title track right here for the next two weeks.
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of May 1, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Alien Vampires – Clubbers Die Younger [EP] (Alfa-Matrix Records)
Archie Powell & the Exports – Great Ideas in Action (Good Land Records)
Attaque – When Lights Falls (Honest Jon’s Records)
B.o.B – Strange Clouds (Good Land Records)
Brian Jonestown Massacre – Aufheben (A. RECORDS) — Joseph Viney
Ane Brun – It All Starts With One (Play It Again Sam)
Callaghan – Life In Full Colour (Green Town Music)
Cradle Of Filth – Midnight In The Labyrinth (Peaceville)
Dot Hacker – Inhibition (Alternative Distribution Alliance)
Electrocution – Inside the Unreal [20th anniversary ltd. edition] (Rosem)
Eternal Deformity – The Beauty Of Chaos (Code666 Records)
Evans the Death – Evans the Death (Slumberland Records)
Father John Misty – Fear Fun (Sub Pop Records)
Freakangel – Let It All End (Alfa-Matrix Records)
Ghost Mice – All We Got is Each Other (Plan-It-X Records) — Robin Smith
Gravenhurst – The Ghost In Daylight (Warp Records)
Hop Along – Get Disowned (Hot Green Records)
Hurt – The Crux (Red General Records)
In Mourning – The Weight of Oceans (Spinefarm)
Norah…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 10, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
16Volt – Wisdom [ReIssue] (Metropolis Records)
Accept – Stalingrad (Nuclear Blast)
Addison Groove – Transistor Rhythm (50 Weapons) — Deviant
Amadou & Mariam – Folila (Nonesuch)
Ancestors – In Dreams & Time (Tee Pee Records)
Attaloss – Attaloss (Rock Ridge Music)
Tim Barry – 40 Miler (Chunksaah Records)
Kishi Bashi – 151a (Joyful Noise Records)
Bassnectar – Vava Voom (Amorphous)
Black Dice – Mr. Impossible (Ribbon Records)
Cavo – Thick as Thieves (Eleven Seven Music)
Charm City Devils – Sins (Fat Lady Music)
Choir of Young Believers – Rhine Gold (Ghostly Int’l)
Counting Crows – Underwater Sunshine (Collective Sounds)
Dead Sara – Dead Sara (Pocket Kid Records)
Demon Hunter – True Defiance (Solid State Records
Dirge Within – There Will Be Blood (THC/Rocket Science)
Enthroned – Obsidium (Agonia Records)
Exumer – Fire & Damnation (Metal Blade Records)
Fastway – Eat Dog Eat (Steamhammer/SPV)
Florence + The Machine – MTV Unplugged [CD/DVD – Deluxe Edition] (Universal Republic)
Nanci Griffith – Intersection (Spunk)
Halestorm – Strange Case Of (Atlantic)
Job for a Cowboy – Demonocracy (Metal Blade)
Keb Mo – X2: Keb Mo / Keep It Simple [Reissue] (Sony Legacy)
Darrelle London – Eat a Peach (Hype)
Jeff Loomis – Plains of Oblivion (Century Media) — SowingSeason
Lords Of Acid –…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of April 03, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Trace Adkins – 10 Great Songs (Capitol)
Atoma – Skylight (Napalm Records) — Trey Spencer
AU – Both Lights (Hometapes)
Bam Spacey – Vi Delar Samma Grab (Ceremony Recordings)
Beak – Eyrie (Someoddpilot Records)
Bear In Heaven – I Love You, It’s Cool (Dead Oceans)
Kasper Bjorke – Fool (HFN Music)
Candlebox – Love Stories & Other Musings (Audionest)
Caracal – Isle Brevelle (Black Acre)
CeU – Caravana Sereia Bloom (Six Degrees)
Chris Clark – Iradelphic (Piccadilly Records)
The Cornshed Sisters – Tell Tales (Memphis Industries)
Cynic – Portal Tapes (Season of Mist) — Trey Spencer
Emily Danger – Paintings (Self Released)
Dr. John – Locked Down (Nonesuch)
ETHS – III {EU} (Season of Mist)
fIREHOSE – lowFLOWS: The Columbia Antholgy (Sony Legacy)
Great Lake Swimmers – New Wild Everywhere (Nettwerk Records)
Hello Lazarus – Hello Lazarus [EP] (Scylla Records)
High on Fire – De Vermis Mysteriis (Entertainment One) — Adam Thomas
Hush Arbors/Arbouretum – Aureola Split LP (PID)
Killing Joke – MMXII (Spinefarm Records) — SowingSeason
Kj-52 – Dangerous (Bec Recordings)
LHF – Keepers Of The Light (Keysound)
Lostprophets – Weapon (Epic) — Adam Knott
Love On A Real Train – Love On A Real Train (Aeronaut Records)
The Lumineers – The Lumineers (Dualtone Music…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of March 27, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
3 Inches of Blood – Long Live Heavy Metal (Century Media)
The All-American Rejects – Kids In The Street (Interscope Records) — Davey Boy
Astra – The Black Chord (Metal Blade) — SowingSeason
Atoma – Skylight {EU} (Napalm Records) — Trey Spencer
Before Their Eyes – Redemption (Invogue Records)
Black Breath – Sentenced to Life (Southern Lord)
Blaktroniks – Ready Set Blow (Tokyo Dawn Records)
Blood Red Shoes – In Time to Voices {UK} (V2) — Davey Boy
Borknagar – Urd (Century Media)
Celldweller – Live Upon a Blackstar [DVD] (FiXT)
Erik Chandler – Writing The Wrongs [EP] (Self Released)
DJ Premier & Bumpy Knuckles – The KoleXXXion (Gracie)
E-40 – The Block Brochure vol.1 (Heavy on Grind Ent.)
E-40 – The Block Brochure vol.2 (Heavy on Grind Ent.)
E-40 – The Block Brochure vol.3 (Heavy on Grind Ent.)
Justin Townes Earle – Nothing’s Gonna Change… (Bloodshot)
Elephant & Castle – Transitions (Plug Research)
Flying Colors – Flying Colors (Mascot)
Georgia A. Muldrow+Madlib – Seeds (Entertainment One Music)
Gift Of Gab – Next Logical Progression (Quannum Projects)
Hint – Daily Intake (Tru Thoughts)
Iron Solomon – Monster (Duck Down Music)
Janus – Nox Aeris (Realid Records)
Klone – The Eye of the Needle (Season of Mist Records)
La Sera – Sees The Light (Hardly Art)
Legacy – With Peace In Mind (InVogue Records)
Lonewolf – Army…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of March 20, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors. Apologies for the delay and abbreviated format.
The American Dollar – Awake In The City (Yesh Music) — Deviant
Anti-Flag – The General Strike (Side One Dummy) — Adam Thomas
Black Sheep Wall – No Matter Where It Ends (Season of Mist) — Adam Thomas
Boat To Row – Grassmarket EP (istartedthefire Records)
Brad Mehldau Trio – Ode (Nonesuch)
C-Bo – Cali Connection (Black Market Records)
Choir Of Young Believers – Rhine Gold (Ghostly International)
Cynic – Portal Tapes {EU} (Season of Mist) — Trey Spencer
DVA – Pretty Ugly (Hyperdub)
Electric Touch – Never Look Back (Island)
Eye Beyond Sight – The Sun and the Flood (Massacre Records)
Melanie Fiona – The MF Life (Universal Republic)
Forever In Promise – Into the Storm (Self Released)
Frank Black & The Catholics – Live at Melkweg (The Bureau Records)
Gun Barrel – Brace For Impact (Massacre Records)
I Call Fives – Someone That’s Not You (Pure Noise) — Davey Boy
If These Trees Could Talk – Red Forest (Self Released)
Casey James – Casey James (Sony)
Lost In The Trees – A Church That Fits Our Needs (Alternative Distribution Alliance) — Rudy Klapper
Margot & The Nuclear So and So’s – Rot Gut (Mariel Recording Company) —…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of March 13, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Adrenaline Mob – Omerta (Elm City Music)
Anuhea – Foir Love (World Sound)
Dave Barnes – Stories to Tell (Razor & Tie)
Barren Earth – The Devil’s Resolve (Peaceville) — Trey Spencer
Cannibal Corpse – Torture (Metal Blade)
Caustic – I Can’t Believe We’re Re-Releasing This Crap (Metropolis Records)
Coldworker – The Doomsayer’s Call (Listenable Records)
The Decemberists – We All Raise Our Voices to the Air (Capitol)
Delta Spirit – Delta Spirit (Concord Music Group)
Demdike Stare – Elemental (Modern Love) — Deviant
Elisa – Steppin on Water (Decca U.S.)
Empires Fade – Reflections EP (Self Released)
Epica – Requiem For The Indifferent (Nuclear Blast)
Estelle – All of Me (Home School Records) — Davey Boy
Lee Fields – Faithful Man (Truth & Soul)
Float Face Down – Exitium Verum (MediaSkare Records)
Gazpacho – March of Ghosts (Kscope)
Gorod – A Perfect Absolution {EU} (Listenable Records)
Hands Like Houses – Ground Dweller (Rise Records)
Hellbound Glory – Damaged Goods (Rusty Knuckles)
Impending Doom – Baptized in Filth (Entertainment One Music)
I See Stars – Digital Renegade (Sumerian Records) — Davey Boy
Jonny Greenwood & Krzysztof Penderecki – Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima (Nonesuch)
Kelvox1 – Grazed Red {EU} (Aagoo)
Nina Kraviz – Nina Kraviz (Rekids)…
Here’s a list of major new releases for the week of February 07, 2012. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
Air – Le Voyage Dans La Lune (Astralwerks) — Deviant
A Place to Bury Strangers – Onwards to the Wall (Dead Oceans)
Dierks Bentley – Home (Capitol Nashville)
Tim Berne – Snakeoil (ECM Records)
Beth Jeans Houghton & Hooves Of Destiny – Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose (Mute)
Big Sir – Before Gardens After Gardens (Rodriguez Lopez Productions)
Archer Black – Forgiveness Is A Weapon (Post Planetary)
Casting Call – Life Goes On (Casting Call)
Robert Deeble – Heart Like Feathers (Dead Letter Records)
Departures – Green Turns To Red, Then Turns To Gold (Fist in the Air Records)
Die Antwoord – Ten$Ion (Downtown)
Dr. Dog – Be The Void (Anti-) — SowingSeason
Eluveitie – Helvetios {EU} (Nuclear Blast)
Feed Me – Escape From Electric Mountain (Mau5trap) — Deviant
The Fray – Scars & Stories (Epic) — SowingSeason
Hyper Crush – Night Wave (RPM)
Kiros – Lay Your Weapons Down (Century Media Records)
Ben Kweller – Go Fly a Kite (The Noise Company)
The Law – Trigger (Local Boy Records)
The Lemonheads – Hotel Sessions (CBRA)
Liam The Younger – After the Graveyard (Underwater Peoples Records)
Mark Lanegan Band – Blues Funeral (4AD Records)
Scott Matthew – Gallantry’s Favorite Son (Riot Bear Recording)
Paul McCartney…
December is always a very slow month for new releases. Due to that fact and the influx of upcoming features, this will be the last news post of 2011. Review links will be updated on this page through the end of the year, but all of the other items will be put on hold until 2012.
As a reminder, voting is still open for the Users’ Best of 2011 list. Go to this thread, (read the guidelines) and vote:
Here’s a list of major new releases for December 2011. Please feel free to request reviews for any of the following albums from staff or contributors.
December 2
Chevelle – Hats Off To The Bull (Epic)
Nightwish – Imaginaerum {EU} (Roadrunner Records)
Nujabes – Spiritual State {JP} (Hydeout Productions) — Nick Butler
VVV – Across the Sea (Fortified Audio) — Deviant
December 6
Age of Woe – Age of Woe [EP] (Pivotal Rockordings)
Bassnectar – Divergent Spectrum (INgrooves)
The Black Keys – El Camino (Nonesuch) — Rudy Klapper
Cormorant – Dwellings (Self Released)
The Cure – The Cure: Bestival Live 2011 ([PIAS] America)
Czar – Vertical Mass Grave (Crack Nation)
Doris Day – My Heart [U.S. Edition] (Arwin Productions)
The Dead Milkmen – The King In Yellow (QUID ERGO)
Neil Diamond – Very Best Of Neil Diamond (Sony Legacy)
Dia Frampton – Red (Universal Republic) — Trey Spencer
Korn – The Path of Totality (Roadrunner Records) — Deviant
Lionize – Superczar and The…
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