3,5 stars. Converting a substack newsletter into a book is a hard task, this one has worked out, partly. Put together, these short essays form as a timestamp of the post-covid era, from a viewpoint of someone who is deeply involved in the music journalism and (broken) music business. Streaming, poptimism, DJing and partying after covid are some of the topics covered. The recurrinng topics and (sometimes) too plain language writing, reliance on ephemeral topics and sources (Twitter) will make it probably date quite fast, but that is yet to be seen, i’ll get back to it in a few years.