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“The biggest challenge was not to come off like Tenacious D. It could easily be interpreted as some form of parody”: How Primus made an album about goblins and rainbows while tryin...

2017's The Desaturating Seven was Les Claypool's bid to explore the darkness of a 1970s children's story, harnessing the influences of King Crimson, Tool and Sean Lennon

“The biggest challenge was not to come off like Tenacious D. It could easily be interpreted as some form of parody”: How Primus made an album about goblins and rainbows while tryin...

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2017's The Desaturating Seven was Les Claypool's bid to explore the darkness of a 1970s children's story, harnessing the influences of King Crimson, Tool and Sean Lennon

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2017's The Desaturating Seven was Les Claypool's bid to explore the darkness of a 1970s children's story, harnessing the influences of King Crimson, Tool and Sean Lennon

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