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Paul McCartney and producer Youth collaborated on 13 songs in as many days to make Electric Arguments , their first collaboration in over a decade, and the first to feature vocals. McCartney and Youth ping-ponged ideas back and forth over the period of about a year through writing, arrangement and production cycles while making this album. Some of this is a continuation of the technique McCartney used on the "mystery" track -- a Beatles picking up an instrument and seeing what happens. But this was a real collaboration, and both creative forces are [...]