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premiere: stream Merely's Uncanny Valley
by Chris June 13, 2016
We're honored to debut one of the most beautiful releases of 2016, Merely's intensely emotional, post-apocalyptic new LP Uncanny Valley. It's a soaring triumph for the Swedish artist and Team Rockit member, one that evokes vivid windswept landscapes from an otherworldly dystopian future -- with references to mysterious biblical works of unknown origin, the darkest material known to man, and the record's overarching theme of feeling lost in that eerie, inescapable sensation first described by Masahiro Mori in the early '70s that now seems more ominously prescient than ever -- all while sounding like some perfect heavenly union of Enya's soothing, sanguine new age tones and towering, gleaming modern Swedish pop...
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