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“Breaking Our Pattern”
When words fail, Vivek Shraya sings. On New Models, the multi-hyphenate artist lets language fall away, and feelings take the lead.
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the act of just being [t]here
Part music criticism, part nostalgic over-analysis, and deeply unnecessary to all but a niche audience of one (me).
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