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Scratch My Back

A review of the new Peter Gabriel covers record. He was definitely one of the five or so most important figures in my formative music years. One of a handful who, when I first started listening to music, made me think for the first time about music as art and not just something that came out of the radio. Which is not to say that music should be thought of that way, or that “art music” is a sign of quality, just that when I was 14 or so, before I started listening to people like Gabriel, I don’t think the idea would have occurred to me. This album, though—meh.

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