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Ful medames, fava beans cooked low and slow until they’re as soft as can be, are beloved in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and elsewhere in the region.

Ful medames is cooked ahead to give the favas time to soften and collapse into a creamy spread with a seemingly unlimited capacity to drink up olive oil.

Ful is a dish I was familiar with having had Arab friends growing up whose parents would make it at home.

Electric guitars only get touched gently, even when they’re being touched in a hurry, like over the motorik putter of “Ful Stop,” or the spartan click-clack of “Identikit.”

A single mistake festers and rots at the core of "Ful Stop" — "you really messed up everything" — until it erupts into the album’s most exciting band-driven sequence.