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Here’s what we need now: harmony. On “I Can Still Hear You,” Suzzy Roche and her daughter, Lucy Wainwright Roche, beautifully blend their warm voices and create a delightful musical counterpoint to ...

Dissonance in music is a taste acquired over time. Like a craving for coffee or scotch, the appetite for such harmonics is also culturally conditioned. One man’s song may well be another man’s noise.

Legions of metal bands have sung about the Apocalypse, but few have managed to create a racket that sounds horrific, chaotic and unpredictable enough to resemble a soundtrack to the Rapture itself.