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“It was better,” said the multi-instrumentalist Jaleel Bunton, 50, over dinner in Greenpoint last week, without even a moment’s hesitation.

At the time, starting a scrappy rock band in nearby Williamsburg, where Bunton and the singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Kyp Malone, 51, have lived since the Bloomberg era, was the practical thing to do.

Adebimpe, Malone, Bunton and Dave Sitek — a founding member of the band and its longtime producer — have been around long enough to experience a few nostalgia cycles, both as subjects and consumers.

Bunton broke in: “But it’s a double or triple redundancy, to me,” he said.

“It’s really gratifying now to meet alienated teenagers who tell you that you broadened the context of what they can do,” Bunton added.