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The Internet's 'Hive Mind' Is A Soundtrack To The Slow Burn Of Summer

After embarking on solo projects and a three-year break, The Internet has come back together to produce an album of low-key songs of summer.
Nominees for song of the summer tend to be lively party anthems, but the grooves on The Internet's <em>Hive Mind,</em> out now,<em> </em>help score summertime's less boisterous but no less sublime moments.

When first debuted in 2011, the common joke was that the musicians had picked an unfortunate name for fans who wanted to find anything about them on, you know, the Internet. But those cheap snickers

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