The instrumental opening pairs spare, uneasy electronics with sounds that suggest a damaged landscape and a home slowly becoming unfamiliar. The vocal half follows the book’s emotional pressure points: separation, surveillance, doubt about the self, and the fragile pull of intimacy between Junior and Henrietta.
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Mica Levi · Under the Skin
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The Door
Hildur Guðnadóttir · Chernobyl (Music from the Original TV Series)
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Naive Response
Daniel Avery · Drone Logic
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Persona
Rival Consoles · Persona
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Being Here
Laraaji · Flow Goes The Universe
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The How of it Sped
Bing & Ruth · No Home of the Mind
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The Garden Of Brokenness
William Basinski · The Garden Of Brokenness
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The Host of Seraphim
Dead Can Dance · A Passage in Time
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How to Disappear Completely
Radiohead · Kid A
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Everything In Its Right Place
Radiohead · Kid A
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Teardrop
Massive Attack · Mezzanine
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The Day Before You Came
ABBA · The Visitors (Deluxe Edition)
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I'm Deranged - 2021 Remaster
David Bowie · 1. Outside (The Nathan Adler Diaries: A Hyper Cycle) [2021 Remaster]
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Human Behaviour
Björk · Debut
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The Great Below
Nine Inch Nails · The Fragile
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Roads
Portishead · Dummy
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The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Gordon Lightfoot · Summertime Dream
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cellophane
FKA twigs · MAGDALENE
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River
Oliver Coates · The History Of Sound (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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