Whatever happens though, I’m sure it’ll be something amazing. We were told to give up in the future once before, only for a wave of some of the most amazing music of all time to be unleashed onto us. So don’t make that mistake again. Something amazing’s always on the way. You might have to be patient for it to arrive sometimes, but if someone ever tells you that the future has died, always remember they lied. As you say, the future’s this beautiful, endlessly receding horizon.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thanks to Luke Davis for being and unrivalled genius and for filling my mind with magic. Thanks to Simon Reynolds for being a mentor, an inspiration and for being so generous towards me. Thanks to Carl Neville for all of his support, ideas, tact and enthusiasm. Thanks to Tariq Goddard, Josh Turner, Mike Watson, Ellie Potts, and any unsung heroes at Repeater for all their hard work to make this happen. Thanks to Glen Wilkins for creating the absolutely brilliant “Dirty Sprite” creature on the cover. And of course, thanks to Toma, Inna, Mum, Dad, Olive, Andy, Tara, Kristin, Valerie and Nigel for being the maddest family imaginable.
REPEATER BOOKS
is dedicated to the creation of a new reality. The landscape of twenty-first-century arts and letters is faded and inert, riven by fashionable cynicism, egotistical self-reference and a nostalgia for the recent past. Repeater intends to add its voice to those movements that wish to enter history and assert control over its currents, gathering together scattered and isolated voices with those who have already called for an escape from Capitalist Realism. Our desire is to publish in every sphere and genre, combining vigorous dissent and a pragmatic willingness to succeed where messianic abstraction and quiescent co-option have stalled: abstention is not an option: we are alive and we don’t agree.
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