Phonogram, Vol. 1 discussion

A friend recommended it and i'm interested in other comments.

I really liked it. There's a really thorough review of it here (with spoilers): http://hoodedutilitarian.com/2013/02/...

This was my review:

I really enjoyed this, and intend one day to attempt to read it with Spotify to hand for a listen of all the unfamiliar bands and tunes. But I found it intelligible even without anything more than the most cursory knowledge about Britpop (which the protagonist would be sure to deride as ignorant of the way it REALLY went down), because it’s also a book about myth, memory, magic, identity, and the many places in which those things overlap and intersect.

I enjoyed it a lot despite broadly thinking that Britpop is where the music I like went wrong.

Disclosure: I am a friend of both the writer Kieron Gillen and artist Jamie McKelvie.

That said it's the first work by them which truly brings together their pop sensibilities. And lets make it clear pop is by no means a derisory term here. Sure the exact musical genre is rooted in the early 90's britpop explosion, but the story is more of an exploration of what gives pop music its vital spark. Wrapped up in a magical context that allows myth and history to be explored as expressions of pop culture.