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!NEW!
Kieran Press-Reynolds chats with his dad for GQ - long, fun, rambling, occasionally goofy colloquy with my firstborn
My Baker's Dozen on reinvention of the guitar at The Quietus
Moonbuilding - lovely review by Neil Mason (scroll down a ways)
Matt Moore at Lost Tempo appraises not just the new book but the entire Reynolds bibliography
Financial Times best books of the summer
IMMINENT
Rock's Back Pages podcast with Barney Hoskyns and the RBP crew - today
Excerpt from Still In A Dream at The Wire website - July 2
Interview with Robert Quinn / Wasteland Receiver (Resonance FM) - soon
Essay for Vice's "Self-Destruction" issue - on the oblivion-thru-obliteration aesthetic of narcotic neo-psych bands like Spacemen 3 and other late '80s bliss-rockers.
BBC Radio 6 Huw Stephens – around 7th July
RTE Culture File – Luke Clancy
Rock N Roll Book Club Music Maps podcast
Over/underrated podcast
C86 Radio Show – David Eastaugh
RECENT AND OLDER COVERAGE
To Here Knows When podcast - excellent chat with Paul McDermott
Word In Your Ear podcast - fun chat with Mark Ellen and David Hepworth - Word In Your Ear podcast - the episode with me now available on Apple and YouTube
Quietus news story by Christian Eede on Still In A Dream, with comments from myself and from the cover designer Henri Holz
Still In A Dream YouTube playlist
"Still in a Dream is more than just a celebration of some enduringly wonderful music - it's a great book full stop, Reynolds' best yet. Bringing together the sugar hiccup enthusiasms of his music press youth with the harsh wisdom of his extremely online old age, it covers everything from the sensual sublimity of the Cocteau Twins to Big Black and the genesis of edgelordism, from the little undergrounds of C86 and shoegaze to the pyrrhic overground victories of Grunge and Britpop. It's warm, funny, sometimes startlingly honest, and a very timely reminder that 'withdrawal in disgust is not the same thing as apathy'
- Owen Hatherley, author of Militant Modernism and The Alienation Effect
"Still in a Dream is as important a work of art as any of the records that inspired it. Simon Reynolds's erudition and judgement is at the service of the music he so passionately loves, his words meeting the songs on an equal footing thanks to an innate lack of ego which allows his insights to float amidst the notes in an ether of sonic luminosity
- Tariq Goddard, founder of Repeater Books and author High John the Conqueror
'Much like the melodies of the music itself, this book feels like a story which has been waiting to burst out and shine for an eternity. Every band detail is fascinating but the real joy lies in Reynolds being entirely enraptured by a scene, the tales of someone blissfully caught in the heart of a storm'
- Daniel Avery, deejay and producer
‘The alternative guitar rock of the late 80s was imaginative, expansive, experimental, and ultimately - and perhaps unexpectedly - proved to have a lasting impact on the way pop sounds in the 21st Century. Simon Reynolds was there, filing dispatches from rock's cutting edge: part-memoir of a lost world of music journalism, part critical analysis, Still In A Dream brings an important and exhilarating era vividly to life’
- Alexis Petridis, The Guardian
TRANSLATIONS
German version from Ventil Verlag. November 2026
American translation on Da Capo January 2027
Spanish language version is due from Caja Negra Editora in Argentina. Date TBA.
French version from Audimat. Date TBA.
Italian version from Minimum Fax. Date TBA.
First copy seen in the wild - Waterstones, Hampstead
