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MUSIC<br />
Introducing<br />
PRESTIGE<br />
SERIES<br />
Respect for <strong>the</strong> original source.<br />
“Special Dark” builds from a low hum and a rush<br />
of cymbals to a spooky hard-rock incantation with<br />
neon-tinged electronics. There’s a roaring breakdown<br />
in which a computer keyboard behaves as if it’s going<br />
mad. “Burn My Body,” <strong>the</strong> album’s most cynical and<br />
darkest moment, takes a page from Italy’s experimental<br />
gothic-horror band Goblin and opens with what could<br />
pass as an overture to a vampire movie. A rhythm hits<br />
like bells tolling and Beck calmly sings, like he’s leading<br />
a church choir, as <strong>the</strong> arrangement sneaks in and out<br />
of <strong>the</strong> shadows.<br />
The closing “The Master Is Away” reverses <strong>the</strong><br />
course. A mournful keyboard gets lost amid a crush<br />
of fuzzy synths. But instead of building, <strong>the</strong> song<br />
becomes a downbeat instrumental ballad with a single<br />
bright melodic strand acting as wordless vocals.<br />
Consider it <strong>the</strong> sound of <strong>the</strong> band easing <strong>the</strong> listener<br />
back into <strong>the</strong> real world, a place no less unsettled but<br />
rarely as musically unhinged. —Todd Martens<br />
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Prestige 75F shown<br />
52 TONE AUDIO NO.75<br />
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