LISTEN: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber (Allen &Unwin, $39.99)
" Far more than our taste in movies or books, the music we love is our billboard to the world, announcing who we are or who we’d like to be.
Books of music criticism can be risky. There’s a fine line between thought-provoking opinions about the state of the art and sounding like the dishevelled bloke who plonks down next to you at the pub one night and starts banging on about King Crimson.
Music writing be prickly, though. You want it to poke at you like a phonographic needle, challenging your assumptions and likes while hopefully exposing you to
