Futuromania
Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines and Tomorrow’s Music Today
$69.45
- Hardcover
416 pages
- Release Date
18 June 2024
Summary
Pre-order Simon Reynold’s forthcoming Still in a Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers, and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-1994, publishing June 2026.
Simon Reynolds’s first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music’s future - the vanguard genres and heroic innovators whose discoveries eventually get accepted by the wider mass audience. But it’s also about the way music can stir anticipation for a thrillingly transfo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399618335 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1399618334 |
| Author: | Simon Reynolds |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | White Rabbit |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 18 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 640g |
| Dimensions: | 42mm x 162mm x 238mm |
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Critics Review
A captivating celebration of the music that pushes us forward * Record Collector *
Should be guaranteed a place on the bookshelf of everyone who claims to be a music lover * Blitzed Magazine *
Read it and you will believe he believes in life after love * Mojo *
The deeper he digs, the better it gets - his explanation of Auto-tune is fascinating * Uncut *
Futuromania is a testament to our ever-changing imagination of what the future holds and whether radical sounds equate to radical politics * TANK *
Beautiful, combining irresistible period detail with astute critical insight * TLS *
Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds is the author of Energy Flash: A Journey through Rave Music and Dance Culture, Blissed Out: The Raptures of Rock, The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellions and Rock and Roll (co-written with Joy Press), Rip it Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978 - 1984 and, most recently, Bring the Noise: Twenty Years of Hip Hop and Hip Rock.
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