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Press Play Archives #1: Can We Be Frank? What Semi-Fictional Band "The Soronprfbs" Means for Music
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Press Play Archives #1: Can We Be Frank? What Semi-Fictional Band "The Soronprfbs" Means for Music

This RETRO series republishes essays from the first U.S. column on metamodernism, "Metamericana," which IndieWire's Press Play imprint hosted in the 2010s. IndieWire published this article in 2014.

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ABOVE: Michael Fassbender (l) and Domhnall Gleeson (r) in Frank (2014).

{Note: Years ago, Indiewire inexplicably pulled off-line a significant percentage of its archives. My mid-2010s column Metamericana was one of the hundreds of casualties of this decision. I’ve now recovered my articles from the publication, many of which deal with topics, artworks, a…

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