Description
Eschewing the usual criteria of chart success or acknowledged influence, the Copendium – a collection of album reviews and themed track samplers – takes energy, originality and heaviness as its bearings. The result is a feast of obscure and neglected masterworks that together form a surprising but entirely credible new tradition. Krautrock, motorik and post-punk, stoner and doom metal, occasionally even jazz, spoken word and hair metal: they are all represented in a wholly persuasive sequence.
Cope is the perfect guide to this novel terrain: impeccably informed, passionate, insightful and deeply funny. The Copendium is his re-imagining of a useful canon of popular music, and it is set to become required reading.
- Authors:
- Cope, Julian
- Year Published:
- 2013
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780571270347
- Number of Pages:
- 736
- Publication Date:
- 05/09/2013
- Publisher:
- FaberFaber
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Publication Date:
- 05/09/2013
- Publisher:
- Faber & Faber
- Language:
- English
- SKU:
- 9780571270347
