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  • Certain Women Film · 2010s

    Certain Women is a 2016 American drama film edited, written, and directed by Kelly Reichardt. Based on "Native Sandstone", "Travis, B." and "Tome"—three short stories from Maile Meloy's collections Half in Love and Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It—it stars Laura Dern, Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams, Lily Glad...

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  • Great Wall Music · 1990s

    Beyond's Cantonese rock argument — civic feeling put through guitars, refusing to treat politics as separate from melody.

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  • A concept album of obsession, orchestral sweep, and spoken-word seduction. French pop at its most literary and cinematic.

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  • Loveless Music · 1990s

    Shoegaze's magnum opus. Guitars as texture, noise as beauty, melody buried in distortion.

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  • Free jazz's opening salvo. Lonely Woman and the liberation of melody from harmony.

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