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Everyone everywhere — every culture in the world — loves perfectly seasoned, expertly cooked, just cool enough to pop in your mouth, audibly crunchy morsels of fried meat, fish, fowl or vegetables.

Nuts can transform a dish with a crunchy, salty bite, elevating something ordinary into something extraordinary.

There are a couple of knockouts – including the crunchy garage rock of Gap Toothed Smile, and the choppy New Wave anthem Link – but the point of the album is its diversity.

Sometimes pasta is comforting because it doesn’t have a crispy, crunchy aspect, with the softness of the pasta and sauce one of the most familiar, reliable components.

No wonder the green bean casserole needs its crunchy halo.