Passionate, obsessive, and smart—Nylon
Religious tracts for the rock’n’roll faithful—Boldtype
Each volume has a distinct, almost militantly personal take on a beloved long-player… the books that have resulted are like the albums themselves—filled with moments of shimmering beauty, forgivable flaws, and stubborn eccentricity—Tracks Magazine
At their best, these books make rich, thought-provoking arguments for the song collections at hand—The Philadelphia Inquirer
Praise for individual books in the series:
Dusty in Memphis
Warren Zanes … is so in love with Dusty Springfield’s great 1969 adventure in tortured Dixie soul that he’s willing to jump off the deep end in writing about it— Rolling Stone
A heartfelt dive into the world of 60s R&B … dazzling—Pop Culture Press
A long, scholarly, and convincing piece of nonfiction analyzing the myth of the American South—Nick Hornby, The Believer
Hultkrans obsesses brilliantly on the rock legends’ seminal disc—Vanity Fair
Exemplary … a wonderful piece of writing—Pop Culture Press
Great… the writing and approach matches the enduring complexity of its subject—Jon Savage, Word
The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society
This is the sort of focus that may make you want to buy a copy, or dig out your old one—The Guardian
This detailed tome leads the reader through the often fraught construction of what is now regarded as Davies’s masterpiece—and, like the best books of its ilk, it makes the reader want to either reinvestigate the album or hear it for the first time—Blender Magazine
Fascinating and superbly researched … a book that every Kinks fan will love—Record Collector
Meat Is Murder
Full of mordant wit and real heartache. A dead-on depiction of what it feels like when pop music articulates your pain with an elegance you could never hope to muster. ‘Meat is Murder’ does a brilliant job of capturing how, in a world that doesn’t care, listening to your favorite album can save your life—The Philadelphia Inquirer
Like his exquisite LPs, Pernice’s perceptive, poetic ear for unpicking the workings of troubled inner lives is exceptional—Uncut
A slim, confessional novella equal to anything written by Nick Hornby—Bandoppler
One can accept, reluctantly, Pernice’s apparently inexhaustible ability to knock out brilliant three-minute pop songs. But now it turns out that he can write fiction too, and so envy and bitterness become unavoidable—Nick Hornby, The Believer
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
John Cavanagh combines interviews with early associates of Pink Floyd and recording-studio nitty-gritty to vividly capture the first and last flush of Syd Barrett’s psychedelic genius on the Floyd’s ’67 debut—Rolling Stone
Digs impressively deep … a must-have for Syd-era Floyd fans—Record Collector
Harvest
Successfully sets the album both in its time and within the artist’s canon—Record Collector