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Restorations' Shimmering 'The Red Door' Examines Gentrification's Emotional Damage

The lead single from the three-guitar rock band's first album in four years, LP5000, wonders what remains of a neighborhood when its residents are pushed out.
Restorations' <em>LP5000</em> comes out Sept. 28.

It's in the name: returning a place to its proper condition. It's in the logo: a house tipped on an angle, in need of repair. , now 10 years running, is named for more than, the Philadelphia rock band needed some restoration itself.

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