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ART ROCK

urable, indefinable art-pop mavericks go all out on the brilliant, bittersweet concept album (Hitback). It’s loosely the saga of the singer’s dad’s 70s band, who never quite made the big time, although it’s clearly also semiautobiographical. Jostling with sunny rhythms are philosophical musings. The band in the story were . Although Spearmint don’t sound like that, they do testify that ‘’.

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