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Fred Armisen loves doing interviews. It’s a rare trait for someone of Armisen’s stature in Hollywood: an A-list comedy giant who spent more than a decade on “Saturday Night Live,” skewered hipster culture for eight seasons on IFC’s sketch staple “Portlandia” and who currently stars as the lovably deranged Uncle Fester on Netflix’s Addams Family revival, “Wednesday.”

And yet Armisen is completely sincere when he insists he’s delighted to be in press mode for his new album, “100 Sound Effects.” “I love it,” Armisen promises as our Zoom conversation goes over the hour mark and I apologize for keeping him. “When I was growing up — [and] I think about this all the time — if a David Byrne

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