by Joe Bonomo

It's so easy for critics to spend all their time worrying over how pop music gets made - the granular technical details, what a song or record means in its various historical or social contexts. Joe Bonomo understands those things, but still returns to what's arguably the most crucial component of art: how it makes us feel and what it does to our lives. Field Recordings from the Inside is a beautiful, revelatory book about what it means to be a human with headphones on. — Amanda Petrusich, author of Do Not Sell At Any Price: The Wild