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
A reading list for anyone who never has their headphones out of their ears, touching on music history, biography and the world of super fandom, from modern pop to classical.
