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Not every beloved figure of alternative music decides the album they need to make is a double based on Milton's Paradise Lost (by way of William Burroughs). But then not every beloved figure of alternative music is Grant Hart, one of the two creative minds at the heart of Hüsker Dü, and for a quarter of a century a maker of solo music in his own right. "It was a heck of a lotta work to fill in all those gaps to get the reader, get the listener from the fall of the angels to the fall of man," Hart told the Village Voice recently.

He also laid down a vision for how it might be best performed live: "What I would like to do is do it as a ballet; kind of like a perverted ballet where the band and the singers are accompanied by dancers on stage. I see some real inexpensive ways of staging certain things. I think it would be more than a string section but having five or six vocal sections would add more to it."

Whether we'll ever get to that remains to be seen. But in the meantime, have a listen to The Argument and let us know what you think.