Futuromania: Electronic Dreams and Desiring Machines

Simon Reynolds’s first book in eight years is a celebration of music that feels like a taste of tomorrow. Sounds that prefigure pop music’s future -- the vanguard genres and heroic innovators whose discoveries eventually get accepted by the wider mass audience. But it’s also about the way music can stir anticipation for a thrillingly transformed world just around the corner: a future that might be utopian or dystopian, but at least will be radically changed and exhilaratingly other.

Simon Reynolds started his journalistic career in 1986 as a staff writer for the British weekly music paper Melody Maker, and has since then written for dozens of national and local publications, including (but not limited to) the New York Times, Spin, Village Voice, Rolling Stone, Artforum, The Wire, Pitchfork, The Guardian, Slate, Frieze, and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of four books and five collections of essays and interviews. His books have been translated into ten languages. Born in London, he now lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children.