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But Mercer and Million clearly did some soul-searching in the six years between Crazy Rhythms and The Good Earth

An earlier acoustic version of "Big Boys" included as a bonus track on Rhino's reissue of This Year's Model reveals layers of anger and heartbreak that the album version buries beneath impenetrable four-part harmonies and a heavy fog of reverb

a Scientists-infused dip into the swamp

but is rent with an oceanic sense of scale

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