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<\/a>Wondering where they went? Over the past 10 years, my pet genius have recorded, scraped, re-recorded, abandonned, and re-worked\u00a0several album’s worth of material. They said it is ‘all towards the greater goal of creating something timeless’ and based on this first raw demo for the track Pricked <\/em>, this is definitely an accurate statement.<\/p>\n