Ben Ratliff

Praise for Every Song Ever

A music appreciation guide for our era ... Brilliant

Dan Chiasson, New York Review of Books

A remarkable new book . . . [Ratliff] goes leaping from Beethoven to Big Black, from Morton Feldman to Curtis Mayfield, identifying continuities while delighting in contrasts

Alex Ross, New Yorker

The spectacle of an active mind processing a world in constant flux . . . Maybe, as Ratliff beautifully argues, the brooding aggression of metal obscures a deeper melancholy

Hua Hsu, New Yorker

A music appreciation guide for our era ... Brilliant

Dan Chiasson, New York Review of Books

A remarkable new book . . . [Ratliff] goes leaping from Beethoven to Big Black, from Morton Feldman to Curtis Mayfield, identifying continuities while delighting in contrasts

Alex Ross, New Yorker

The spectacle of an active mind processing a world in constant flux . . . Maybe, as Ratliff beautifully argues, the brooding aggression of metal obscures a deeper melancholy

Hua Hsu, New Yorker

A music appreciation guide for our era ... Brilliant

Dan Chiasson, New York Review of Books

A remarkable new book . . . [Ratliff] goes leaping from Beethoven to Big Black, from Morton Feldman to Curtis Mayfield, identifying continuities while delighting in contrasts

Alex Ross, New Yorker

The spectacle of an active mind processing a world in constant flux . . . Maybe, as Ratliff beautifully argues, the brooding aggression of metal obscures a deeper melancholy

Hua Hsu, New Yorker

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