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So there might be a song in this somewhere. Only we, the listeners, are outside of the club, so the sound is all filtered and echoed and mostly vibration … AND the club is probably what we call the “Welcome to Canada” bar from David Lynch's Fire Walk With Me, where Laura takes Donna to show her what the nights are like … AND it happens to be located on a spacecraft … AND the spacecraft is nearing the event horizon of a black hole. So … it’s not exactly music, but not exactly noise … more the experience of waiting in line to enter the “Welcome to Canada” club while simultaneously on a spaceship entering a black hole. Had the band consulted with us, we’d have advised they employ the two secrets of the Escher-Staircase eternally rising chords. But maybe they wanted some ups and downs to the sound of the event horizon. (It’s been long enough since we last approached a black hole that we can’t recall if it’s an eternally-upward or up-and-down vibe.) Of course, what first caught our attention and led us to click on this track was its title from the first line of Gibson’s Neuromancer:
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