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Albums Out Today: Belle and Sebastian, Margo Price, Billy Nomates, Rozi Plain, and More

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Albums Out Today: Belle and Sebastian, Margo Price, Billy Nomates, Rozi Plain, and More

In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on January 13, 2023:

Belle and Sebastian, Late Developers

Belle and Sebastian have released their new album, Late Developers, via Matador. Announced earlier this week, the album was recorded in the same sessions as the band’s last album, 2022’s A Bit of Previous, and was previewed with the single ‘I Don’t Know What You See In Me’. Rather than “a collection of lesser-than songs that weren’t good enough to go on the ‘real’ record,” Jeff Rosenstock writes in the album’s bio, Late Developers is “an embrace of the freedom that comes with a jumbo-sized canvas; skilled students left unsupervised to paint whatever picture they feel like.”

Margo Price, Strays

Margo Price has returned with a new album, Strays, which follows 2020’s That’s How Rumors Get Started. Featuring additional vocals from Sharon Van Etten, Mike Campbell, and Lucius, the LP was produced by Price and Jonathan Wilson and was primarily recorded in the summer of 2021 at Fivestar Studio in California’s Topanga Canyon. “I feel this urgency to keep moving, keep creating,” Price said in press materials. “You get stuck in the same patterns of thinking, the same loops of addiction. But there comes a point where you just have to say, ‘I’m going to be here, I’m going to enjoy it, and I’m not going to put so much stock into checking the boxes for everyone else.’ I feel more mature in the way that I write now, I’m on more than just a search for large crowds and accolades. I’m trying to find what my soul needs.”

Billy Nomates, CACTI

Billy Nomates, the project of Bristol-based songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Tor Maries, has followed up her 2020 debut with a new album, CACTI, out now via Invada Records. “Writing CACTI took just over a year,” Maries explained in a press statement. “I wrote very intensely and then none at all. (This seems to be the way I work best). I picked up old drum machines, mapped out things in my kitchen with the same small micro keyboard I always use and then raided the cupboards and rooms at Invada Studios, to play and experiment with old synths, an upright piano, this weird organ thing. I hope everyone finds their own narrative in CACTI. I think it’s about surviving it all.”

Rozi Plain, Prize

Rozi Plain has issued a new album called Prize, following her 2019 record What a Boost. Out now via Memphis Industries, the songwriter’s fifth LP was preceded by the singles ‘Agreeing for Two’ (which features Alabaster dePlume on saxophone and backing vocals from This Is The Kit’s Kate Stables), ‘Prove Your Good’, ‘Help’, and ‘Painted the Room’. Rozi co-produced the album with Jamie Whitby Coles, who also plays drums throughout Prize. Recording took place everywhere from the Isle of Eigg to a seaside village in French Basque Country as well as the band’s homes in London, Bristol, and Glasgow.

WILDES, Other Words Fail Me

Other Words Fail Me is the debut full-length from London-based musician Ella Walker, who records as WILDES. The album was produced by St Francis Hotel, aka Declan Gaffney, who is known for his work with Little Simz, Greentea Peng, and Micahel Kiwanuka, and also features the Flaming Lips on the closer ‘True Love’. Discussing its title, Walker explained: “It was a name I’d had for quite a while in my head, but the album really grew into the name – it became a lot more symbolic than I ever intended, as writing this album was the only way I could safely and honestly talk about what was going on at the time. I quite literally didn’t have any other words to describe it other than the lyrics in these songs.”

MOLLY, Picturesque

MOLLY have followed up 2019’s All That Ever Could Have Been with their sophomore album, Picturesque, out now via Sonic Cathedral. The Austrian shoegaze duo previewed the LP with the singles ‘The Golden Age’ and ‘Ballerina’. “‘More is more’ was definitely the credo when making this record,” singer/guitarist Lars Andersson said in a statement. “A big inspiration were bands like Pond and the way they manage to fill their songs up with stuff to the absolute maximum. While I definitely tried to give the listener some room to breathe at certain points and while, in good old post-rock fashion, it still builds up and breaks down, it relies much more on simple melody and harmony as opposed to noisy experimentation to transport feeling.”

Obituary, Dying of Everything

Florida death metal legends Obituary are back with their first new album in six years. Out now via Relapse, Dying of Everything is the follow-up to the band’s 2017 self-titled record, and it includes the previously shared tracks ‘The Wrong Time’ and the title cut. “We did not hit record until we were 100 percent ready,” drummer Donald Tardy recalled in an interview with Stereogum. “With the songs, performances, instruments, mic placements, inputs, how hot are we hitting things, the arrangements. We were very prepared before we hit record on this album.”

 James Yorkston, Nina Persson, and the Second Hand Orchestra, The Great White Sea Eagle

James Yorkston, Nina Persson, and the Second Hand Orchestra have shared a new album titled The Great White Sea Eagle (via Domino). It follows a similar methodology as James Yorkston and The Second Hand Orchestra’s previous record, 2021’s The Wide, Wide River. “Everyone who was playing in the Second Hand Orchestra, in their own way they are all unique and colourful players,” Yorkston said of the process in a press release. “There was no-one there who didn’t know what to do. I would bring them the songs, we would start one – I would play it, and second time round people would start singing and playing, and by the time we had done it three or four times we would hit record and we would be ready to go.”

Other albums out today:

Poolblood, mole; BabyTron, Bin Reaper 3: New Testament; Liela Moss,
Internal Working Model; The Subways, Uncertain Joys; Circa Waves, Never Going Under; Gaz Coombes, Turn the Car Around; Velvet Negroni, Bulli; Daniel Pioro, Saint Boy; Polar, Everywhere, Everything; Tujiko Noriko, Cr​é​puscule I & II; Oliver Coates, Aftersun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).

Miley Cyrus Shares Video for New Single ‘Flowers’

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Miley Cyrus Shares Video for New Single ‘Flowers’

Miley Cyrus has released ‘Flowers’, the first single from her new album Endless Summer Vacation. The track arrives with an accompanying video that was created by Cyrus and directed by Jacob Bixenman, with movement direction from Stephen Galloway. Watch and listen below.

Endless Summer Vacation is set to land on March 10 via Columbia. The follow-up to 2020’s Plastic Hearts was recorded in Los Angeles and features production credits from Mike Will Made-It, Greg Kurstin, Tyler Johnson, and Kid Harpoon.

Lisa Marie Presley, Singer and Elvis’ Only Child, Dead at 54

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Lisa Marie Presley, Singer and Elvis’ Only Child, Dead at 54

Lisa Marie Presley, the only child of Elvis Presley, has died. The singer was rushed to the hospital on Thursday morning after collapsing to the floor from cardiac arrest. “It is with a heavy heart that I must share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla Presley said in a statement. “She was the most passionate strong and loving woman I have ever known. We ask for privacy as we try to deal with this profound loss. Thank you for the love and prayers. At this time there will be no further comment.” Presley was 54.

Lisa Marie Presley was born on February 1, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee to Elvis and Priscilla Presley. When her father died in 1977, Lisa Marie became joint heir to his estate alongside her grandfather, Vernon Presley, and her great-grandmother, Minnie Mae Hood Presley. At the age of 25, Presley was the sole surviving heir of the estate, but sold 85% of it to businessman Robert F.X. Sillerman of SFX Entertainment in 2004.

It wasn’t until later in life that Presley followed her father’s path into music, embracing his legacy by performing duets with old recordings of his songs ‘In the Ghetto’, ‘Where No One Stands Alone’, and ‘Don’t Cry Daddy’. In 2003, she released her debut album, To Whom It May Concern, which reached No. 5 on the Billboard 200 and featured a co-write with Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan on the B-Side ‘Savior’. Now What, released in 2005, peaked at No. 9 and featured a guest appearance from Pink on ‘Shine’, while her third and final album, 2012’s Storm & Grace, was produced by T Bone Burnett.

In addition to her musical career, Presley was known for her humanitarian efforts. She oversaw the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation, which was founded in 1984 to honor the singer’s memory, and was involved in charities such as Oprah Winfrey’s Angel Network and the Dream Factory. In a 2011 proclamation received from the city of Memphis, Presley was described as “a humanitarian and philanthropist who continues to focus her efforts on the hometown she knows and loves, Memphis. Through her efforts and time she has improved homelessness, literacy, and raised funds for local charities and organizations. She raises awareness for Memphis and continues to set an example of what one person can do when they put their mind to it.”

Presley was married four times: to Michael Lockwood, Nicolas Cage, Michael Jackson, and Danny Keough. Last year, she opened up about the loss of her son, Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in 2020, writing in an essay for People: “If you know someone who lost a loved one, regardless of how long it’s been, please call them to see how they are doing. Go visit them. They will really really appreciate it, more than you know.” In addition to her late son, Presley had three other children, actress Riley Keough, Finley Aaron Love Lockwood, and Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood.

Presley attended the 2023 Golden Globe Awards on Tuesday night with her mother, Priscilla Presley, to support Baz Luhrmann’s new biopic Elvis. “I do want to take a moment to let you know that I’ve seen Baz Luhrmann’s movie Elvis twice now,” she tweeted in praise of the film last May. “Let me tell you that it is nothing short of spectacular. Absolutely exquisite. Austin Butler channelled and embodied my father’s heart & soul beautifully.”

Billy Corgan paid tribute to Lisa Marie Presley on social media: “There is heartbreak and then there is sorrow. This would be sorrow and on more levels than I can count,” the Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan said late Thursday on Instagram, where he also shared a photograph of himself with Ms. Presley. “I truly cannot find the words to express how sad this truly is.”

Pink also honoured the singer in an Instagram post, writing: “Oh, this one hurts my heart. Lisa Marie, you were one of a kind. Funny as shit, smart as a whip, sensitive, talented, witty, mean, loving, generous, judgmental but always right, loyal, and you adored your children. My heart breaks for you and your beautiful family and your children. The world lost a rare gem today. May your soul rest in peace, friend. 💔.”

Presley’s family said in a separate statement that they were “shocked and devastated by the tragic death of their beloved Lisa Marie. They are profoundly grateful for the support, love and prayers of everyone, and ask for privacy during this very difficult time.”

Album Review: Nicole Dollanganger, ‘Married in Mount Airy’

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Album Review: Nicole Dollanganger, ‘Married in Mount Airy’

“All you have to bring is your love of everything.” What a strange line for an ad jingle. The way Nicole Dollanganger wraps her voice around it on the title track of her remarkable new album, you’d think it was made up; just one of those vivid, unnerving details she carves into her dark storytelling. But the tune, taken from a commercial for a 895-room resort that was once a popular honeymoon hideaway, has etched itself into the minds of many a generation. In a 2017 essay, the journalist Ada Calhoun recalls hearing it as a child: “When I should have spent that time absorbed by Benson or Scooby-Doo, I worked to decode the lyrics to the Mount Airy Lodge song. By ‘love of everything,’ did they mean you would have to bring your love of volleyball and horseback riding and billiards? That seemed like a lot. Or did you just need to bring your husband, who was your “love of everything” – meaning that, of all the things, he was the one you loved above all?”

The Mount Airy Lodge, like many of the love songs Dollanganger has written since she first started uploading her lo-fi bedroom folk music online, had a tragic end. A few years after it was demolished in 2001, the Mount Airy Casino Resort was built in its place when casino gambling became legal in Pennsylvania. In the lead-up to her last album, 2018’s Heart Shaped Bed, the Southern gothic singer-songwriter visited the Poconos and was struck by how “everything is love-based, but it’s broken down and destroyed”; the abandoned motel as a metaphor for doomed love was something she’d already soaked in. Despite the unusually long wait between albums, Married in Mount Airy seems to pick up where that record left off, as if the paradox kept coming back to haunt her. But the shift in framing is immediately apparent: while the protagonist of Heart Shaped Bed dreams of wedding nights spent at seedy motels, the new album begins by reckoning with the past, treating memories like ghosts you can’t help but hold onto. We’re told the marriage happened, “sometime in the late ’60s”; it’s the cloud hovering above it, the mystery left in its wake, that then slowly creeps into view.

In Dollanganger’s music, love and eroticism have always been inextricable from violence and pain. They get tied up in bleak, gruesome, and often ambiguous ways, but Dollanganger is careful not to veer into exploitation. Married in Mount Airy goes one step further, avoiding explicit descriptions in favour of vague yet searing lyrics that amplify both the power and horror that permeates them. Though her recollection is hazy on the opening track, she notes that “there was something very strange in the air” in the lover’s suite; the sense of foreboding grows on ‘Gold Satin Dreamer’ just by mentioning the smell of raw steak. At the same time, Dollanganger cuts through the murkiness of remembering with some of her sharpest, most nuanced poetry to date: “All of those dreams left out in the sun/ They run like syrup and clot like blood/ Disfigured beyond recognition,” she sings against the singe and shimmer of guitar strings.

By treading similar ground as its predecessor, Married in Mount Airy highlights Dollanganger’s ability to transform the familiar into the uncanny, and her refined approach is mirrored the delicate subtlety of the production. Working with longtime collaborator Matt Tomasi, she fashions hauntingly ethereal, gloomy sounds that do more than make space for her songwriting. Though it masquerades as the sunniest track on the album, ‘Runnin’ Free’ is a suffocating portrait of loneliness rather than escape, which is glimpsed only by the sound – not even the sight – of motorcycles driving off into the night, before expanding into music, drama. Weeping guitar accompanies her as she wonders what to make of all the tears she’s cried over her lover on ‘Bad Man’; cross it with the line about how “all my tears and rage could load a revolver” on ‘Nymphs Finding the Head of Orpheus’, and you can probably figure out how things ended.

Whatever crime transpired isn’t central to the story of Married in Mount Airy; Dollanganger instead focuses on the abusive dynamic that brought the relationship to a boiling point – and even then, it’s more about the long, tortuous process of letting go. “Isn’t it strange how you and I/ Spend the best part of our time/ Just saying goodbye,” she sang on ‘Lacrymaria Olor’, likely referencing the 1951 film A Place in the Sun. And if following the dream was always a false promise, if there’s no longer room for it, maybe it’s there, in the movies, that she can finally bury him. The album’s penultimate track finds our protagonist in her lover’s wake, feeling sorry for all “the beautiful women there in your death/ Crying out they swear they will love you until their very own last dying breath.” With a smile on her face, she continues: “There’s a spot in the grass waiting for you at Whispering Glades/ And Hollywood suits you, darling, I think you should stay.” There, with her love of everything.

Paramore Share New Single ‘C’est Comme Ça’

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Paramore Share New Single ‘C’est Comme Ça’

Paramore have offered another preview of their upcoming album, This Is Why. It’s called ‘C’est Comme Ça’, and it follows the previously released title track and ‘The News’. Check out a lyric video for the song below.

Talking about the track, whose title translates to ‘It’s Like That’, Hayley Williams explained in a statement: “I’m trying to get un-addicted to a survival narrative. The idea of imminent doom is less catastrophic to me than not knowing anything about the future or my part in it. The guys and I are all in much more stable places in our lives than ever before. And somehow that is harder for me to adjust to.”

In an interview with Apple Music, she added:

It’s just this really great treat and we had a really god time getting back into a little bit of dance punk vibes,” she said. “I had been listening to a lot of Dry Cleaning and Yard Act and just artists that talk a lot over great, cool music. So I guess I was just feeling poetic and feeling a bit critical of myself and fused all that stuff.

I was really stoked to get this music because a lot of times with Paramore, unless we’re all in the room at the same time working on stuff together, I feel like a lot of what I do is top lining and I love doing that. It’s so freeing. Especially after doing the solo records where I was just always on top of every single moment.

This Is Why, the follow-up to 2017’s After Laughter, arrives on February 10.

Mannequin Pussy Join Dazy and Militarie Gun on ‘Pressure Cooker’ Remix

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Mannequin Pussy Join Dazy and Militarie Gun on ‘Pressure Cooker’ Remix

Dazy and Militarie Gun have enlisted Mannequin Pussy vocalist Missy Dabice for a new remix of their joint single ‘Pressure Cooker’. Check it out below.

‘Pressure Cooker’, which came out last March, made our list of the 25 Best Songs of 2022. Dazy, the project of Richmond, Virginia-based musician James Goodson, released his debut album OUTOFBODY in October; that same month, Militarie Gun dropped the deluxe edition of the All Roads Lead to the Gun EPs after signing with Loma Vista. Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Militarie Gun.

Vagabon Releases New Single ‘Carpenter’

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Vagabon Releases New Single ‘Carpenter’

Vagabon, the moniker of Lætitia Tamko, has released a new single called ‘Carpenter’. Marking the artist’s first solo material since her 2019 self-titled album, the track was co-produced by Tamko and Rostam. Listen to it below.

“‘Carpenter’ is about that humbling feeling when you desperately want to be knowledgeable, you want to be advanced, you want to be mature, forward thinking, and evolved,” Tamko explained in a statement. “It’s about being confronted with your limitations. It’s about that A-HA moment, when a lesson from the past finally clicks and you want to run and tell someone who bore witness to the old you, ‘i finally get it now.’”

In 2021, Vagabon teamed up with Courtney Barnett to cover Tim Hardin’s ‘Reason to Believe’ and Sharon Van Etten’s ‘Don’t Do It’. That year, she also joined Jamila Woods and Miloe on the song ‘Winona’.

Xiu Xiu Announce New Album ‘Ignore Grief’, Share Video for New Single ‘Maybae Baeby’

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Xiu Xiu Announce New Album ‘Ignore Grief’, Share Video for New Single ‘Maybae Baeby’

Xiu Xiu have announced their next album: Ignore Grief will be released on March 3 via Polyvinyl. It sees the band once again operating as a trio, with Jamie Stewart and Angela Seo being joined by old friend and new member David Kendrick (Sparks, Devo, Gleaming Spires). Today’s announcement comes with the release of the new single ‘Maybae Baeby’, which you can check out below, along with the album art, tracklist, and Xiu Xiu’s upcoming tour dates.

“In ‘Maybae Baeby,’ the singer’s viewpoint is of a young person hiding in a fantastical conversation with a tarantula in order to escape a physically abusive parent,” Stewart eplained in a statement. “We were hiding within this fantasy of a fantasy, following the model of the late 1950s sub genre of ‘Teen Tragedy Songs,’ to try and find a way to come to terms with a number of staggeringly horrendous events that occurred to people close to the band over the last 2 years.”

The song’s accompanying visual was directed by Seo, who shared: “The video is, for better or worse, about literal isolation, all the things we tell ourselves to should do or not do, forcing open a small crack and crawling deep into it, even if we know we shouldn’t, just to get away to somewhere else, even if it’s worse.”

According to press materials, Ignore Grief “is a record of halves.” Seo sings on one half of the record, while Stewart sings on the other. “Half of the songs are experimental industrial. Half of the songs are experimental modern classical. Half of it is real. Half of it is imaginary.” The press release goes on to elaborate:

The real songs attempt to turn the worst life has offered, to five people the band is connected with, into some kind of desperate shape that does something, anything, other than grind and brutalize their hearts and memory within these stunningly horrendous experiences.

The imaginary songs are an expansion and abstract exploration of the early rock and roll “Teen Tragedy” genre as jumping off point to decontaminate the band’s own overwhelming emotions in knowing and living with what has happened to these five people.

Ignore Grief, the band’s thirteenth studio album, will follow their 2021 duets record OH NO.

Ignore Grief Cover Artwork:

Ignore Grief Tracklist:

1. The Real Chaos Cha Cha Cha
2. 666 Photos of Nothing
3. Esquerita, Little Richard
4. Maybae Baeby
5. Tarsier, Tarsier, Tarsier, Tarsier
6. Pahrump
7. Border Factory
8. Dracula Parrot, Moon Moth
9. Brothel Creeper
10. For M

Xiu Xiu 2023 Tour Dates:

Apr 2 San Diego, CA – Soda Bar
Apr 3 Phoenix, AZ – Valley Bar
Apr 4 Tucson, AZ – 191 Toole
Apr 5 Albuquerque, NM – Sister Bar
Apr 6 Denton, TX – Rubber Gloves
Apr 7 Austin, TX – Elysium
Apr 9 New Orleans, LA – Gasa Gasa
Apr 10 Baton Rouge, LA – Chelsea’s Live
Apr 12 Memphis, TN – Greenroom – Crosstown Arts
Apr 13 Nashville, TN – The Blue Room – Third Man Records
Apr 14 Atlanta, GA – The Earl
Apr 15 Savannah, GA – Lodge Of Sorrows
Apr 16 Durham, NC – Motorco Music Hall
Apr 18 Washington, DC – Black Cat
Apr 19 New York, NY – LPR
Apr 20 Philadelphia, PA – PhilaMOCA
Apr 21 Baltimore, MD – Metro Gallery
Apr 22 Harrisburg, PA – Stage on Herr
Apr 23 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
Apr 25 Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle
Apr 26 Milwaukee, WI – Cactus Club
Apr 27 Rock Island, IL – Rozz Tozz
Apr 28 Iowa City, IA – Trumpet Blossom
Apr 29 Lawrence, KS – The Bottleneck
Apr 30 Denver, CO – HQ
May 1 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
May 3 Seattle, WA – The Vera Project
May 4 Portland, OR – Holocene
May 5 San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
May 7 Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon

King Tuff Releases New Song ‘Tell Me’

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King Tuff Releases New Song ‘Tell Me’

King Tuff has released ‘Tell Me’, the third offering from his new album Smalltown Stardust. It follows the previously released single ‘Portrait of God’ and the title track. Take a listen below.

“Almost every song in the world is about love, yet somehow there’s still not enough love songs,” Kyle Thomas said in a statement. “And if you took all the love songs in the world and added them to all the love songs that haven’t been written yet, well, there still wouldn’t be enough. There’s always room for more love and there’s always room for more love songs. Love is an endless well, you can do love songs about people, nature, passion, frustration, animals, joy, madness. Most of my songs are love songs, and I like it that way. But I’m still not satisfied! I want more! I want more love! And I want you to have more love! So here’s ‘Tell Me,’ a love song.”

Smalltown Stardust, which was written and recorded with SASAMI, comes out January 27 via Sub Pop.

spill tab Joins Matilda Mann on New Song ‘Borderline Insane’

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spill tab Joins Matilda Mann on New Song ‘Borderline Insane’

Matilda Mann and spill tab have teamed up for the new song ‘Borderline Insane’, which features production by Oscar Scheller. Check it out below.

“‘Borderline Insane’ is about those times when you have no idea what to wear for a date and everything keeps going wrong and you look crazy cause you’re slightly going crazy!” Mann explained in a statement. “And while I’ve overthought every tiny detail, my date sat there looking perfect without even trying.”

“I’m so excited that I got to work with Matilda and Oscar on this one, they’re two incredibly talented people,” spill tab said. Mann added: “I’ve been such a fan of spill tab for so long and it’s a dream to have her angel-like verse on the track. We wanted ‘Borderline Insane’ to be the upbeat, fun, crazy song that you put on while getting ready for the day. We can all be insane together.”

Mann put out a series of singles last year, including ‘Margaux’, ‘Hell’, ‘Nice’, and ‘Four Leaf Dream’. spill tab’s 2022 outings included ‘CRÈME BRÛLÉE!’, ‘Splinter’, and ‘Sunburn’. Revisit our Artist Spotlight features with Matilda Mann and spill tab.

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