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As I usually do,
I stayed mad about this longer than was practical; the math-rock trend ran
its unlistenable course, driving a fair number of earnest indie-pop bands
off the road in the process, but its a safe bet that anybody who really
had something important to say would have found some way to keep their head
above water. By 1999 I had toned down my cantankerousness enough to listen
to an instrumental record now and then, and I found myself drawn to one
or two of themthings like Nigel Bunns amazing Index,
which isnt entirely instrumental but might as well be, given that
its few lyrics are abstract in the extreme. When Id sit down with
a record I might have dismissed a few years before, I might guiltily enjoy
it, but one nagging question remained.
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