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The words “Abandon Taste” glow on a neon sign in the main room of Jacknife Lee’s Topanga Canyon recording studio, part of a three-structure compound that also includes his home — and a yurt. It’s an ironic statement, considering Lee, real name Garret Lee, is the acclaimed, Grammy-winning producer featured on Taylor Swift’s Red, U2’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, R.E.M.’s Accelerate and Weezer’s The Red Album. More recently, he produced “Cannibal,” the crunchy new single from Silversun Pickups’The Singles Collection, released Feb. 25; and “I Won’t Let Go” by frequent collaborator Snow Patrol, a heartfelt highlight from the Divergent soundtrack (see story, page 37), released March 11. Like most of Lee’s recent (and best) work, it was recorded here, on an impossibly…