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Among the pieces of art that made the biggest impact on An Inbuilt Fault—Will Westerman’s second album as Westerman—are two classic films: Ingmar Bergman’s allegorical 1957 masterwork The Seventh Seal and Akira Kurosawa’s probing 1952 sociological drama Ikiru. In totally separate ways, each film follows a protagonist in the throes of an existential crisis, evoking turmoil and stasis, carefully charting out their quests for self-understanding and actualization. On “A Lens Turning,” one of An Inbuilt Fault’s standouts, Westerman comments on a similar kind of troubled journey to the centre of the self: “I don’t know who I am anymore,” he sings. “Forgot what I was looking for/I’m noticing how the lens turns/More when I’m asking why.”