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Ahead of Friday’s release of
Intelligent Design Flaw, the second solo album from longtime Mock Orange bass player Zachary Thompson Grace, I dropped by Grace’s South Nashville home studio Self-Help International to chat about the LP, a 10-year labor of love for the 39-year-old musician and engineer. Asked if he thinks the record shares some musical DNA with Mock Orange — the Southwestern Indiana indie-rock long-haulers he’s played with since 2002 — Grace shoots a puzzled look from across the control room. “I think it couldn’t be further,” Grace says. “But I guess it’s in the same world.”