Paperback Q&A: Simon Reynolds on Retromania

The music critic on travelling through time to grapple with pop's eerie fixation with looking backHow did you come to write Retromania?One day I realised that there was something strange going on in terms of rock and its relationship to its own past. There were specific things I noticed from the mid-2000s: the popularity of the "don't look back" template, where bands play their iconic album all the way through in sequence, or the multiple simultaneous revivals (80s synth pop, late 70s post-punk,...

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