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Now showing — The Sound of the Mountain · 5 works

  • Blood on the Tracks Music · 1970s

    Tangled Up in Blue and the sound of a heart breaking. Dylan's most personal album.

    IdentityPowerAfter-hours
  • Disintegration Music · 1980s

    Gothic pop's masterwork. Rain, reverb, and the gorgeous sound of falling apart.

    After-hoursLonging
  • Kid A Music · 2000s

    Radiohead abandons guitar rock for electronic abstraction. The sound of millennial dread.

    After-hoursLonging
  • The Source Music · 1990s

    The blues as it was before it crossed the Atlantic. Malian guitar as the root of everything.

    After-hoursLonging
  • The Sound of the Mountain Books · 1950s

    An aging man contemplates mortality in postwar Japan. Kawabata at his most quietly devastating.

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