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Laura Jean Anderson Belts An Anthem To Herself, 'Silence Won't Help Me Now'

The booming, stadium-sized chorus has the power to storm 2018.
Laura Jean Anderson.

A whole generation of musicians born in the 1980s have released formative albums in the last few years that mine the production landscape of their birth decade. Thunderous synths, trash-can lid percussion, and the volcanic, Phil Collins-style drum fills are back en vogue. Truly, the

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