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In the third bar, the harmony veers into B major, adding to the unmoored, free-floating atmosphere—matching Dehmel’s image of a town wrapped in nocturnal fog.
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Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Serving as an introduction to an engaging new artistic voice, the film captures a certain laconic, free-floating malaise and anxiety that are indicative of an emergent generational sensibility.
—Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Trump has tapped David Sacks, the venture capitalist, to take on a free-floating role in his administration, overseeing AI and crypto.
—Lauren Goode, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2025
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered 42 pairs of these free-floating planetary-mass objects in the Orion Nebula Cluster.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
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Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
Serving as an introduction to an engaging new artistic voice, the film captures a certain laconic, free-floating malaise and anxiety that are indicative of an emergent generational sensibility.
—Vanessa Franko, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Trump has tapped David Sacks, the venture capitalist, to take on a free-floating role in his administration, overseeing AI and crypto.
—Lauren Goode, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2025
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered 42 pairs of these free-floating planetary-mass objects in the Orion Nebula Cluster.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
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