55 reviews12 followersJanuary 26, 2026I’ve spent most of my life feeling as if I am living at the end of culture. That no one will ever do it like the ‘90s and that culture from the ‘80s is the only stuff worth lending any time to analyzing. And while we are certainly taking the idea of the end of history to new extremes in the 2020s, this book made me excited to have lived through the 2010s and to be alive today to see what comes next. I went to a 2010’s night at Zebulon recently and was thrown by the scattershot of music they played from 1738 to Rather Be by someone named Clean Bandit. It made me feel like we did not have a unifying cultural language to describe my youth. But it was so nice to read a book that not only devotes time and serious consideration to this period of music, but also considers it as a huge turning point in the culture.Essential reading for any music fan or anyone who was a young person in the year 2014. 62 reviewsJune 28, 2025I found this book in my local indie book shop and was very much drawn in by the prospect of a Caroline Polachek interview. The book takes you through the musical journeys of 5 musicians (Devonté Hynes, FKA Twigs, Oneohtrix Point Never, Earl Sweatshirt and SOPHIE) all up and coming artists with massive influence over their respective genres. When I read musical reviews/biographies, I'm sometimes put off by writers being overly elitist or critical but this wasn't the case with this book at all. It's refreshing to read a detailed and in depth analysis/background from somebody motivated by a passion and love for music. Liam Inscoe-Jones illustrates very well the collaborative nature of music. Nothing exists in a vacuum and this is especially true for music. We wouldn't have Blood Orange without artists like Charles Mingus or Janet Jackson. And we wouldn't have songs like All That (ft queen Carly Rae Jepsen) without Devonté Hynes. The same applies to all these artists. Twigs was shaped by Arca, Oneohtrix Point Never by The