June 28, 2007
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___________________ is one of the most recognisable music critics around — or at least his style is, not least for its willingness to tackle pop music as an art form worthy of sustained intellectual discourse rather than as a fleeting moment of adolescent flash. Reynolds breaks new ground, melding unbridled enthusiasm with a robust theoretical framework in a body of work that is thrilling for its eclecticism alone: he’s never less than compelling writing about hip hop, Britney or rave, as he is about grunge, prog or grime.
Hint: Ballardian: the World of J.G. Ballard » ‘Magisterial, Precise, Unsettling’: Simon Reynolds on the Ballard Connection
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