"It was less about being protective, pretentious jerks and more about just getting people to slow down and really feel these songs, " she said.

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But he also shoehorns in lugubrious scenes from Poland, a sitcom apartment inhabited by people wearing rabbit heads, and mysterious appearances and disappearances, and jumbles the strands together as a pretentious puzzle.

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