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...For “Movement”, a twinkly synth gospel number from 2018, he shed the guitar and sang with hands plunged tragically in his pockets, before snapping back into the mixture of infectious rock riffs and “eh-eh-eh...
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...“Nothing seems so simple anymore,” Stevens sings in “Genuflecting Ghost” over an acoustic-guitar melody....
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