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R.E.M - Try Not to Breathe

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I'm Dying. I've Seemed Things You Will Never See.

"I brought the climatic death scene of the android Roy Batty into my grandmother's voice to create this beautiful kind of narrative. The record became a lot about death and passage and transition," he said. "It's not just death and it's not all darkness. There's lightness and humor and levity and there hopefully transition."

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