When melodies do emerge, they plod out as legato funeral dirges.
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That it will plod on, competent and reasonable, but no more.
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But it remains possible that it will plod on for some time.
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I just kinda plod along and make this all in a bubble.
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You just have to plod through it, so he's still in therapy.
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Runners plod along the Embarcadero to the finish line at Ocean Beach.
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So they plod along and head down whatever policy road they enjoy.
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Depending on Chairman Kim to plod in Soviet footsteps could well invite tragedy.
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Adopting an erratic, flashback-fortified style, he disrupts the typical plod to sobriety.
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Every time children stick out their arms and affect a ghoulish plod, he lives again.
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So on it must plod, more zombie than champion, an emblem of an enfeebled industry.
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I pronounced it over the phone as if it rhymed with plod, shod and trod.
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"I was just trying to plod my way along the golf course all day," said Woods.
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Meanwhile Greece must plod on with pension and tax reforms, and speed up privatising state property.
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Texas case would continue to plod, zombielike, through the courts until it receives a final ruling.
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Plus, Arya has continued to steadily plod through her hit list, eliminating Walder Frey and his men.
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So it's somewhat surprising that the platform has continued to plod along for nearly four additional years.
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There's the way we plod along trying to solve the Rubik's cube... and then there's speed cubing.
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Without goals, instead of learning and improving yourself, you just plod along wondering why things never change.
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The suit itself could plod through the courts, with appeals going on for months or even years.
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As the years plod on and the methane piles up, solving this mystery has taken on increasing urgency.
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Plod can spot "significant mental health issues" in someone whose ID they don't know, even while tasering him.
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Watching Kirkman plod through his day in Episode 3 of "Designated Survivor" makes for a tough viewing experience.
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On a big-enough horse to match his proportions, he can plod down Main Street without causing panic.
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Given Felder's tendency to plod after his opponents, drawing Felder forward and around the cage could work a treat.
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His entire plan was to plod straight in on the taller Jon Jones and try to swing at him.
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But weeks after candidates made concession phone calls and partisan lawyers flew home, county workers plod into the holidays.
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They plod over fields, stroll along train tracks, and, at one point, wade knee-deep through a raging river.
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Yik Yak's product has continued to plod along, despite some colleges' attempts to ban the app for facilitating cyberbullying.
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No, they would plod along, dwelling on the banal details of the intersecting lives of four women in Kobe.
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The interest-rate cut should keep the downward pressure on sterling, and the European recovery continues to plod along.
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Rather than plod on with austerity measures, he seems mesmerized by ambitious vanity projects and fattening his personal portfolio.
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"We just plod along as a happy little town, but we don't know how good we really are," he said.
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Linux will probably just "happily plod along", in the words of Mr Torvalds, as will open-source software in general.
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Maybe visit your butcher or farmstand, or plod around online with the fancy-meat turkey farmers, and order your bird.
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Bears plod through the woods in quest of blueberries, cranberries and honeysuckle berries, which Kamchatkans also collect by the bushel.
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As the young priest and his ancient mare plod through the gray, mist-sodden landscape, his arrogance turns to uneasiness.
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Many industries that you might imagine to be directly in the crosshairs of Silicon Valley are expected to plod along happily.
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I nudge A. awake and plod over to the kitchen to get breakfast and lunch packed while he's in the shower.
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Relations between China and the United States have already been tense as efforts to resolve their monthslong trade war plod forward.
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As the Yankees plod along with a middling record — and the worst offense in the American League East — that could be changing.
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The last time he had pitched in Washington, on April 26 against Philadelphia, Scherzer needed 116 pitches to plod through five innings.
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It's in the storytelling where "Yellowstone" doesn't do much more than simply plod along -- largely squandering, at least initially, its thoroughbred pedigree.
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Despite the haunting presence of its star, S. Epatha Merkerson, that version seemed to plod, stooped under its heavy cargo of significance.
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Otherwise, the best we can do is plod about our day-to-day lives — and merely hope that we are not next.
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"I plod away, though I don't enjoy this kind of thing," Alcott wrote in her journal as she began work on the novel.
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In other words, how long do you plod through pages of increasingly unhelpful search results before you try a different combination of words?
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To some, that experiment was a refreshing turn from the steady plod toward globalization that Americans have experienced for the past 50 years.
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And then some of them, like Netflix's new Ozark, just plod forward with the most basic and predictable version of the story imaginable.
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Instead, you plod toward it, marching toward the moment when a creature takes your last coin and swipes the golden crown off your head.
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"I think as the campaigns plod on you'll see more discussion of it because it is a huge issue here in Florida," Soto said.
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The major automakers that are publicly traded plod along, raking in mountains of revenue every quarter (cars are expensive) but posting relatively modest profits.
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Most of them, especially those controlled by the state, will continue to plod on in unsexy industries, such as steel or cement, for some time yet.
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As they make jokes about genitals and sex on "Daddy Ding Dong" or else plod through the banal "ROBOT", one wonders who is meant to be laughing.
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Kim Jong Un took the scenic route to meet Donald Trump in Hanoi, spending 215 hours on a slow plod through China on an armor-plated train.
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Kim Jong Un took the scenic route to meet Donald Trump in Hanoi, spending 2 hours on a slow plod through China on an armor-plated train.
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Mr Macron is surely right that the EU's enlargement policy needs reform, but for now it ensures that the six aspirants plod along, slowly adopting EU-compliant legislation.
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"Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books," she wrote.
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With the Supreme Court's punt, the Fifth Circuit's injunction is upheld — and the case will continue to plod, zombielike, through the courts until it receives a final ruling.
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Christopher Sokolowski, in the father's measured plod around the auditorium, sang with solid, attractive tone; Jesse Malgieri was a winsome idler, and Gloria Park striking as his tormentor.
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Her decision to plod ahead with gradual rate increases as chairwoman looks pretty good so far — the job market is looking healthier than it has in a decade.
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The White House has sought to make it harder for immigrants to be remain free inside the United States while their requests for asylum plod through the courts.
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UATUMÃ SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT RESERVE, Brazil — The white mist is thick and creamy, and it envelops me as I plod up the steep stairs of the exposed steel tower.
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When Stanley Spencer made St Francis modern, he painted him as lumpen and plod-a-day, wearing a Whiteleys dressing-gown, with ducks and chickens clucking round his slippers.
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Borrowing and investment have "come back to life," said Bill Phelan, president of PayNet, adding that he expects lending growth to "plod along" rather than boom in coming months.
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Instead, a church spokesman merely said the Patriarchate of Moscow had "taken note" of the new findings but it would plod on with its own analysis of the evidence.
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In cases where they aren't shooting the lights out and don't have the upper hand, they plod along and keep it close until they can start shooting well again.
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Without music or the bustle of a busy evening, the pub I'm in feels remarkably still, the silence only broken by the occasional plod of pint glass on table.
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Thus, a cursory read of the data would suggest that the economy continues to plod along on a 2-precent growth path, consistent with what we have seen for years.
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The riders Gillard focuses on are mostly young boys and girls, some of whom are still learning how to handle their furry paint ponies that plod over the icy trails.
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Unlike Sumatra Road, which any politician or hack can plod in search of votes or stories, Facebook is a maze of virtual streets in which parties can campaign with little scrutiny.
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DALANZADGAD, Mongolia (Reuters) - Out in the Gobi Desert, the crowd, many in colorful Mongolian traditional dress, admire the shaggy-haired, cud-chewing camels as they plod by in a beauty parade.
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Using data they extracted from the GoT show and book wikis, the students created an algorithm that weighs factors like gender, age, and house to determine the Potential Likelihood of Death (PLOD).
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The central question is whether the U.S. will surrender to Chinese leadership in this key strategic area of clean energy systems while we plod along relying heavily on carbon-based, dirty fuels.
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"I have tended just to plod along, really, and do what I've done," he said, in an interview, adding that journalists typically write about him when they have nothing else to report.
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The thing is, we've wasted so much precious screen time watching him plod North to meet the Three Eyed Raven that there needs to be some sort of big payoff at the end.
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But the company's plans for what's next — from big data to virtual reality — also will feel the glare of the spotlight as user growth is expected to plod along on the flagship product.
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Try before you buy and decide if you want to scoot like Space Man Spiff down the thoroughfares and boulevards of your town or plod like a bold neanderthal while the future zooms by.
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Joining their pitiable ranks is Simonsen himself as a young cop ("pig, rozzer, plod, fascist, scum, bastard") back in the 1960s, a "soldier in a war I didn't understand," alienated from his entire generation.
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But this too passes, settling into the more gentle plod of the record's closing track "Mortality Sweep"—a suggestion, maybe, that all chaos subsides, and on the other side there's tranquility, or something like it.
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While other parts of the world take a sensible approach to cannabis—decriminalizing and even legalizing it—the UK's government continues to plod along, refusing to engage in any kind of sensible debate on the topic.
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Ngannou is not a skilled kicker and this really showed in a couple of his early UFC fights, wherein he would plod around—stop—and then throw a labored, full power right low kick, absolutely naked.
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Vince McMahon can go chase his inexplicable XFL dreams and just leave WWE to plod on, secure in the knowledge that it's so rich and well-stocked that it's become a pro wrestling perpetual motion machine.
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"I feel far from a ballerina, but I'm equally determined not to break into a penguin-style waddle and plod around with bad posture," reveals Kate Middleton's younger sister who is due to give birth in October.
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Take the Celtic Frost-y plod from Hutcherson and Coleman's drums in the final third of "Bloodletting" or the stripped-down ballad section of "From Ruin" with only Pendergast's voice and a clean guitar tone, for example.
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Disregarding the structural tropes of music that prefigures it sonically—the measured plod of industrial music, the twitchy energy of more experimental forms of techno— Pure Expenditure stretches out, moving more free-associatively between themes and sounds.
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But if you're convinced stocks are going to plod along at best — with every short rally followed by a volatile pullback — or think stocks are still due for a correction, you don't need to exit the market entirely.
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I was entranced by her majesty and determination, by her slow plod away from the water, and the delicacy with which she worked her hind flippers through the sand and created a hole in which to lay her eggs.
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But on "Love in Outer Space" — a Sun Ra classic that Mr. Taborn keeps in regular circulation with his quartet — the six-beat, Middle Eastern plod grows only more hypnotic over the course of the nearly eight-minute performance.
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Johnnie Christmas's linework is pleasantly raw and chunky, especially when he gets to hint at nature's bloody teeth and claws, although the bland office scenes that dominate the story's first half plod like a well-intentioned educational comic book.
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But the final track provides an intriguing bit of studio ephemera: For 773 minutes, Monk and the drummer Art Taylor work out a spare, chunky plod on the toms and snare, creating a crosshatch with Monk's gently bobbing melody.
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While the Fed and most economists see the U.S. economy continuing to plod along in slow-growth mode, the bulk of data describing the economy's health has surprised to the downside for months as measured by Citigroup's U.S. Economic Surprise Index.
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"I didn't get the support I needed, so I had to plod through the politics of Big Bear Lake all alone," said Ginny Harding-Davis, who with her wife rents out houses in California's Big Bear Lake and Lake Tahoe area.
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As the remainder of the regular season continues to plod forward with a mostly non-existent playoff bubble, it's getting harder and harder to ignore the biggest story emerging in the Eastern Conference: the Philadelphia Flyers might actually do this.
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Caibarién, Cuba (CNN)Packing life-threatening winds, provoking massive storm surge and causing a host of rainfall dangers, Hurricane Irma slammed northern Cuba on Saturday, continuing to plod a path of devastation through the Caribbean en route to the US state of Florida.
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"Instead, we heard the same kind of tale of woe, the struggling stories, the same defensive nature, with the only twist being a better control of inventory and a sense that they can continue to plod along," the "Mad Money " host said.
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"Instead, we heard the same kind of tale of woe, the struggling stories, the same defensive nature, with the only twist being a better control of inventory and a sense that they can continue to plod along," the "Mad Money" host said.
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Not even the F.B.I., which in the summer of 2015 learned of the accusations against Nassar and proceeded to plod along in an investigation — if it can be described as that, considering it didn't contact the main witness for nearly 11 months.
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Randau's script, though, is an implacable plod from one bashing to another as the man (here named Kelab and stoically played by Jürgen Vogel) returns from a hunt to find his village burned, his clan slain and his wife violated and murdered.
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Of the Hellhammer songs available, "Buried and Forgotten" lays out the biggest hints towards what was to come; its quavering, spooky vocal and grim plod could hunker down quite comfortably in one of Into the Pandemonium's weirder corners, but we'll get into that later.
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This has brought up fears from fans that some teams will just plod along and not try as hard as they used to because that fear is gone, Riot Games' co-heads of esports Whalen Rozelle and Jarred Kennedy said in the video above.
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Abortion rights are in trouble, but it seems that the conservative justices on the nation's highest court (with the notable exception of Clarence Thomas) are content to plod along rather than rush headlong into a decision that could spark a dangerous new flashpoint in the culture wars.
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Since the Warriors have had a tendency to lazily plod their way through the beginning of games, developing no rhythm on either side of the court, committing horrendous turnovers and settling for shots that qualify as bad even for their expert shooters, there is an opportunity to capitalize with aggressive play.
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Rather than having an inefficient human worker slowly plod around a store checking prices and finding merchandise—and getting paid for simple but time-consuming duties like searching for an out-of-stock item in a vast basement—the robots can perform the same tasks quickly, without error, and don't expect a paycheck in return.
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These include expanding cooperation between immigration agents and local law enforcement officials; cracking down on "sanctuary cities"; making it more difficult for migrants to successfully claim asylum; allowing the Border Patrol access to all federal lands; and curtailing the practice of "catch and release," in which undocumented immigrants are released from detention while their cases plod through the courts.
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In one shot, the camera shows them from behind, snow blowing up against the horses' asses as they plod along, but in the next shot, we see the two actors from the front and suddenly the flurries have stopped, the air is still, and the viewer is treated to that uncanny, floating-head look that is usually reserved for bad fantasy movies.
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The former shows definitively figurative forms of whales and primates that are cheerful yet unsettling: largely rendered in bright pastels are pretty patterns that replace what would be skin or fur — but the whales are beached, mouths open as if gasping for air; and the apes, with generous daubs of paint bordering their limbs, seem to plod on the canvas as if they had trodden through slick tar pits.
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It has been a long time since anyone mistook him for anything but that, and it is tempting to imagine a world in which the response to him was salutary neglect, and the world turned and left him to plod through icy penthouses, improperly advance his lie in endless Florida golf games against his rancid divorce-collecting peers, leave small tips on big checks, and engage in the more genteel forms of tax evasion.
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OK, it's not like Ricky decided to fuck off spinning about on a chair on The Voice and gathered the lads into the studio to plod through a batch of Basement Boys classics, or a complete re-recording of More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art, and, alright, "Parachute" isn't 100% tropical house, but the point remains: for all we get performatively upset about the sanctity of dance music being trampled on by a rampaging Mark Owen, none of it fucking matters.
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