White Rabbit to publish book focused on influence of SOPHIE, Devonté Hynes (Blood Orange), FKA Twigs, Oneohtrix Point Never, and Earl Sweatshirt

In Songs in the Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age, BEST FIT writer Liam Inscoe-Jones explores five contemporary artists who broke the old rules of sound, style and the music industry at large: Devonté 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.

An unorthodox mix of criticism, biography and music history; the book features interviews with the likes of Caroline Polachek, Daniel Lopatin and Nicolás Jaar.

"When I was a teenager I vividly remember having my mind blown to the music of FKA twigs, SOPHIE and Earl Sweatshirt and feeling like I must surely be living through a kind of golden age. I realise that all teenagers probably feel like that but, whatever, I’m an adult now, and I still feel the same way. Among the relentlessness and immediacy of culture in the Internet Age, I truly believe a new wave of artists working at the threshold between mainstream and the avant garde were making brilliant, timeless music as deserving of full-length writing as the well-trodden sixties, and over-done seventies," says Author, Liam Inscoe-Jones.

"Music writing is at a critical juncture, and so I’m absolutely delighted that Lee Brackstone and White Rabbit have given me the opportunity to explore the lives, careers and work of these boundary-breaking, genre-melding artists in the space of a full-length book. Prising apart the genius of their catalogues gave me the chance to put the likes of A$AP Rocky, Kylie Minogue and Phillip Glass together on the page; all part of a decade-long story which I hope captures the essence of the mad, frantic, beautiful music within it."