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607:"Secret Machines: Awake in the Brain Chamber (TSM Recordings)"
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662:"Full Force: Secret Machines' Awake In The Brain Chamber"
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730:" by Jeremy Gordon in
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570:Collar, Matt (n.d.).
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456:Joe Lambert –
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541:Metacritic
509:. Albums.
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329:space rock
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609:. Music.
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