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A decade ago, Vernons auto-tuned choral exerciseWoodsfertilized Kanye Wests Lost in the World.
Together, theyre creating a musical language thats left of center but shy of inscrutability.
Theyre reliable but not predictable.
Similarly,i,ifeels like the end of a world-building exercise thatEmmakicked off.
Like a feisty young nation-state, this music balances a love of nature with the necessity of industrialization.
(So, Cerberus, ride / Bring those dead alive / LikePirate Jennyon the Black Freighter.)
Hes trying to move people to action, to name our troubles and overcome them.
What I think we need / Is elasticity, empowerment, and ease, Vernon sings on Salem.
We get up by getting together.
