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That shift led to exhibitions in multiple Smithsonian museums that took dour perspectives about America’s past and present.

“The Details” is a crucial moment on the album, an acknowledgment, with a dour fiddle and harp, that communication may be forever broken.

Enduring the dour drudgery of “Last Rites,” it’s never been clearer that it’s time to give up the ghost.

Currie says that while Scots can be dour and cynical, underneath there’s often “a romantic optimism that the world is a beautiful place and that there is poetry in the world.”

I have to admit, to me, it looks a little bit dour – but it packs some original tech.