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Todd Rundgren

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Todd Rundgren has never been at a loss for clever ideas, but even so, Space Force is a particularly ingenious project. Like its predecessor White Knight, its a collaborative effort, but the catch is it consists entirely of songs the original composer left unfinished — Rundgren stepped in to give them a final polish. Its not an uncommon way of working. Essentially, its similar to the role of a producer who will come in and push an artist over the finish line, but with Space Force, it works in reverse: He solicited songwriters for their incomplete songs so he could bring them to life. Rundgren works with a couple of up-and-comers here, ranging from his indie descendants the Lemon Twigs to multimedia hip-hop artist Narcy, but he generally turns to old friends, colleagues, and like-minded stars for their own idiosyncratic scraps. The results are naturally a bit scattered sonically, as any record