Matched song is encoded wrong on iTunes 256 kbps version

iTunes successfully matched the song "No More Love" by God Lives Underwater, and when I retrieved the song from iCloud on another device, there is an error at time 0:53. There is about a half second of a totally different song right in the middle of the track! I tried deleting the file and re-downloading from the cloud, but the error is always there; the track is therefore not having an error in downloading — it must be encoded wrong in the iTunes Store! How can I get this remedied?

I can confirm this, I have the same error at the same point in this song on the iTunes matched version.

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