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Thanks to a misfiring synapse a few weeks ago, I was left obsessing over The Avalanches’ 2001 hit, “Frontier Psychiatrist,” for several days. It wouldn’t leave my brain until I finally gave into it. As I was too lazy to walk into the other room and grab the CD, I typed it into a Google [...] |
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