Anyone who was personally traumatized as a child by the 1984 movie The NeverEnding Story will immediately recognize the furry, Falkor-like dragon head featured on the album cover of the debut album by the duo Disiniblud. In the photo, it sits aglow in the garage of a suburban house, experimental musicians and Disiniblud members Rachika Nayar and Nina Keith taking it in as if it were just another unearthed childhood memento gathering dust at a parents’ house.

Truthfully, I’ve had loose plans to rewatch The NeverEnding Story as an adult for years now, an ’80s fantasy film that follows a shy outcast who gets sucked into a magical storybook’s narrative. I suspect I keep putting it off because I don’t want to confront the scene where the central character’s horse, Artax, gets stuck in the

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