Another quality installment of the 33 1/3 series of books, this one focusing on DJ ShadowÌs landmark LP Endtroducing. Unlike the edition on Meat Is Murder (which is fiction) and Unknown Pleasures (which is meticulously researched and written in unapologetic Pitchforkese: "alien thwack" to describe a tom drum, anyone?), this one is based on a series of frank and revealing phone interviews between the author and Shadow. Did you know Shadow had a nervous breakdown? That the "What Does Your Soul Look Like" suite was primarily inspired by an epic depression? That Automator was instrumental in the production of the album? That James Lavelle was basically Malcom McLaren? All this and more is related by Josh Davis firsthand, progressing chronologically from his early primitive pause-tape beat compositions to Endtroducing to UNKLE to the Private Press. If you like X, you will like Y. 136 pages, softcover.

136 pages, softcover

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