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In every era, amid whatever trash and tragedy that life throws our way, music has the “charms to soothe the savage breast,” as William Congreve put it, though he added that it can also “soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.” In other words, music isn’t just a calming salve. It’s powerful. It can change your mind, maybe even the world.I can’t claim that much for the new music of 2022, but some of it opened new ways of listening—and new distractions from the world’s pettiness.
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