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Endless Arrow
"Endless Arrow" is a song by the American hardcore punk band Converge. The more-than-30-minute-long song was self-released digitally on March 19, 2020 as a pay what you want download. "Endless Arrow" is an extended ambient/experimental remix of the song "Aimless Arrow", the opening track from Converge's 2012 studio album All We Love We Leave Behind. The original track was just under three-minutes long and written by all members of Converge, but "Endless Arrow" was entirely remixed and created by guitarist Kurt Ballou at his own God City Studio. The band has said they created and released the track "to keep people entertained" during the initial United States lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic. Music journalists generally noted the song's drastic departure from Converge's typical musical style and track length. Jon Hadusek of Consequence of Sound described the track as "a half hour of experimental noise and dark, lingering atmospherics. It's a distant echo of the original song's arrangement." Tom Breihan of Stereogum said, "The original track was two minutes as 39 seconds long.…
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"Endless Arrow" is a song by the American hardcore punk band Converge. The more-than-30-minute-long song was self-released digitally on March 19, 2020 as a pay what you want download. "Endless Arrow" is an extended ambient/experimental remix of the song "Aimless Arrow", the opening track from Converge's 2012 studio album All We Love We Leave Behind. The original track was just under three-minutes long and written by all members of Converge, but "Endless Arrow" was entirely remixed and created by guitarist Kurt Ballou at his own God City Studio. The band has said they created and released the track "to keep people entertained" during the initial United States lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic. Music journalists generally noted the song's drastic departure from Converge's typical musical style and track length. Jon Hadusek of Consequence of Sound described the track as "a half hour of experimental noise and dark, lingering atmospherics. It's a distant echo of the original song's arrangement." Tom Breihan of Stereogum said, "The original track was two minutes as 39 seconds long.…
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- release date: 2020-03-19 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
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- If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?
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