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<p class="div-music-text">The record opens with eleven seconds of room tone — the sound of the studio itself, breathing, before the first note is allowed to arrive.</p>
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<p class="div-music-text">Side two was recorded live in a single take, the engineer refusing to stop the tape even when the bassist's string broke four bars from the end.</p>
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<p class="div-music-text">The mastering took longer than the recording — six weeks spent moving a single frequency band a fraction of a decibel, listening, then moving it back.</p>
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<p class="div-music-text">When the test pressing arrived, the band listened to it in a parked car, because the car was where, the singer said, music was actually heard.</p>
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