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Jacob Collier, Part 2

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

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Is There a Tension in Popular Music?

There's always been this tension between musical knowledge and ability on one hand and simplicity. There are definitely moments where a song does not guide you to being reimagined heavily harmonically. "I'm more inspired by the idea of controlling the density of the language in favor of the songs that are being sung"

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