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or an album with no lyrics, Johann Johannsson's Fordlandia certainly has a lot of things to say. Narrative grandeur abounds: a Fitzcarraldo-like Brazilian jungle scene, a 19th-century poet mourning a fallen god, an unlucky rocket scientist, the mysterious work of a deformed German physicist. Lumped together, these ideas, expressed in the song titles and exhaustive track-by-track notes which Johannsson provides online, sound like the stuff of a Pynchon novel or a master's course, a full conceptual plate that would make the album intimidating if the music wasn't just as beautiful even without its ideas. Johannsson's songs are majestic in...
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