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THE BEST PROGRESSIVE music is full of twists, turns and hair-raising surprises. The brainchild of Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Erlend Aastad Viken, Soup’s latest album, Visions, seems to be almost entirely composed of such things. Viken originally conceived it as a solo project in 2005, but here his band pull off the shrewd trick of sounding like a million things at once, and yet like absolutely nothing you have ever heard.