Simon Reynolds - Futuromania : Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines and Tomorrow’s Music Today (Book) Julia Deans Wilson Boateng – Mabre Agu

Wilson Boateng – Mabre Agu

Singer and bassist Sophie Scott-Maunder seems to relish switching between mourning and eye-rolling

The Five-CD set contains full discs of the original album

Kept Me Crying

the lovely backup harmonies by Guided By Voices’ Robert Pollard on three tracks

Simon Reynolds - Futuromania : Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines and Tomorrow’s Music Today (Book) Julia Deans Wilson Boateng – Mabre AguFuturomania is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow: the vanguard genres and heroic innovators who prefigure and shape pop music's future. It explores the interface between pop music and science fiction's utopian dreams and nightmare visions, paying as much attention to the febrile creativity of the human mind as it does to the era defining advances in electronic hardware and digital software. From Giorgio Moroder and Donna