From one of America's celebrated critics, the definitive field guide to listening to music in the age of the Cloud.
Ben Ratliff has been a music critic for The New York Times since 1996. His book Coltrane- The Story of a Sound was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He lives with his wife and two sons in the Bronx.
A music appreciation guide for our era ... Brilliant
*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
*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
*New Yorker*
Incisive . . . Thanks to Ratliff's vast knowledge, what could have
been a dry academic exercise is more like a trip into the world's
coolest record store
*Rolling Stone*
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