"Ms. Pelly looks at all this and asks: At what cost? She's been reporting on Spotify for years, mostly for an iconoclastic publication called the Baffler. She's an indie-music fan and no friend of what one ex-Spotify engineer she interviewed calls 'brain-turned-off listening.' Notwithstanding the undeniable convenience of streaming, Ms. Pelly lays out multiple downsides—for the fans, for the music scenes they're part of and especially for the musicians."
Frank Rose at The Wall Street Journal reviews Liz Pelly's Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist.
And Michael J. Kramer and Peter Richardson at The Nation call Theodore Roszak "The Social Critic Who Predicted Big Tech's Dark Turn."
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