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Liz Pelly: Mood Machine (Hardcover, english language, 2025, Atria/One Signal Publishers) 4 stars

An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive …

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4 stars

I remember the day when a musician friend came over from the USA. He'd just finished a tour and stood in my wife's and my apartment. I asked him if he'd heard of Spotify, and he said 'What's that?' Today, my friend has largely left the music business. He works in a completely different field. Partly, this is by his own choice, but partly, Spotify makes musicians have to get other jobs or stop making music.

In some societies, musicians were seen as people to whom we looked for inspiration, guidance, comfort, love, safety, and the unknown. Musicians not granted aids: they could simply live off making music. They gave, they got. They didn't have to worry about money.

In surveys, music often turns up as the most cherished pastime for peoples across the globe. Yet, at a time when humanity is at its most technologically advanced, when we can …