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The Songs of Now Sound a Lot Like Then

Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 15 July 2011

ONCE POP MUSIC was something by which you could tell the decade, or even the year. But listening to the radio nowadays is disorienting, if you're searching for a sound that screams "It's 2011!"

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