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Uneasy Listening: My Year of Surrendering to the Strange, Soothing Power of the YouTube Algorithm

One bleary late night this summer, a friend played me The Ghost Trade, the lone 1986 album by Camberwell Now, a short-lived band formed from…
Andy Cush / December 27, 2018

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