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As a founding member of New York experimental troupe Gang Gang Dance, Brian DeGraw has made a career of incorporating disparate elements into a heaving whole, merging everything from grime to contemporary Chinese pop. Gang Gang Dance writes some fantastic hooks, but because it is a group, and because of its psychedelic m.o., those hooks are often loose and fleeting. The idea of the band adapting its sound to a more populist format, then, is tantalizing. With such a bewildering array of influence...

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