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The instrumentals begin in the ordered, antique beauty of Julian’s classics seminar, then introduce unease and psychological pressure as the group’s private world curdles. The vocal half brings in outsiders’ perspectives, secrecy, guilt, and the particular pull of Richard’s seductive but destructive circle, balancing campus introspection with the novel’s increasingly ominous edge.
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The Protecting Veil: VII. The Protecting Veil
John Tavener · The Protecting Veil & Wake Up...and Die (Remastered)
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Shaker Loops: I. Shaking and Trembling
John Adams · Adams: Shaker Loops
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Palais de Mari
Morton Feldman · Feldman, M.: For Bunita Marcus / Palais de Mari
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A Rainbow in Curved Air
Terry Riley · A Rainbow In Curved Air
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Erupting Light
Hildur Guðnadóttir · Without Sinking
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Balthus Bemused By Color
Harold Budd · The White Arcades
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Midnight Walker
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore · Sunset Mission
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Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Ralph Vaughan Williams · Vaughan Williams: Tallis Fantasia; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending etc.
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Britten: Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op. 33a: No. 1, Dawn
Benjamin Britten · Britten: Four Sea Interludes, Passacaglia from Peter Grimes & Sinfonia da Requiem
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Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83: III. Precipitato
Sergei Prokofiev · Prokofiev, S.: Piano Sonatas (Complete) / Visions Fugitives
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Where Is My Mind? - 2007 Remaster
Pixies · Surfer Rosa (2007 Remaster)
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Everybody Knows
Leonard Cohen · I'm Your Man
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The Rake's Song
The Decemberists · Hazards Of Love
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Black River Killer
Blitzen Trapper · Furr
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Little Dark Age
MGMT · Little Dark Age
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The End of the World
Skeeter Davis · Skeeter Davis: RCA Country Legend
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How Soon Is Now? - 2011 Remaster
The Smiths · Hatful of Hollow
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Glory Box
Portishead · Dummy
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The House of the Rising Sun
The Animals · The House of the Rising Sun: Best of The Animals
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