Songs In The Key of MP3

The New Icons of the Internet Age

Liam Inscoe-Jones

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White Rabbit
08 July 2025

Music; Music: styles & genres; Individual composers & musicians, bands & groups; History: specific events & topics

It's 2013. You're a teenager squinting at your laptop in the dead of night, flicking between iTunes and YouTube and PirateBay. Endless reams of artists unspool at the click of a button. New forms of musical discovery open up before your very eyes. This evolving digital landscape exists beyond the radio, HMV and even the most extensive record collection. You've entered a whole new world and, suddenly, just about everything feels possible.

In Songs in the Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age, Liam Inscoe-Jones explores five contemporary artists who broke the old rules of sound, style and the music industry at large: Devonte Hynes (of Blood Orange), FKA Twigs, Oneohtrix Point Never, Earl Sweatshirt and SOPHIE. Each began their careers as obscure outsiders but, over time, they helped to re-shape pop culture in their image. Through these five extraordinary figures and an eclectic supporting cast of dozens more, Inscoe-Jones paints a picture of the sonic landscape of the last ten years, exploring the influence of their dazzling music on pop culture, the internet and ourselves.

An unorthodox mix of criticism, biography and music history - and featuring interviews with the likes of Caroline Polachek, Daniel Lopatin and Nicolas Jaar - Songs in the Key of MP3 is a book of endless curiosity and wonder; a salutary attempt to define pop culture in a fast and ephemeral age.

By: Liam Inscoe-Jones
Imprint: White Rabbit
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 226mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9781399609630
ISBN 10: 1399609637
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 08 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Liam Inscoe-Jones is a music and fiction writer who has written for The Quietus, Line of Best Fit and Spectrum Culture. He has interviewed members of 5 Seconds of Summer, Dirty Projectors and Tame Impala, alongside Lianne La Havas, Bartees Strange, Enter Shikari, Xenia Rubinos and Amber Mark, among others. His debut short story 'You Have Been Notified' was published in The Social in 2021. He has released playlists of the best new songs from each month, every month, since 2018. Songs in the Key of MP3 is his first book.

Reviews for Songs In The Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age

Nothing sweets me more than a music book that breaks the mould. This vibrant read amplifies here-and-now talents, featuring some of my favourite artists, like Devonte Haynes and FKA Twigs. It defies categorisation and captures the essence of what makes these musicians so captivating. Impossible not to love it. * Jacqueline Crooks *