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Novacane

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Fairly old tune now but the industrial beats, the sense you're listening to the tune through a smoke-filled tunnel, those elongated strings, longing and reaching for something they never touch, the quick transitions of Ocean's voice from vulnerable affirmation to cathartic wail, and then the lyrics: hard to think another song which sums up the haunting emptiness that is the modern consumer experience more than this one I think I started something  I got what I wanted did-did nah can't feel nothin' superhuman even when i'm fucking viagra-poppin' and every single record auto-tunin' zero-emotion muted-emotion pitch-corrected computed-emotion I blame it on the...