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New York Times: The British rock critic Rob Young’s excellent new book, “Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music”... is largely about England’s amped-up folk music during the late 1960s and early ’70s, is ardent and learned in its search for what the author calls “a speculative Other Britain.” Mr. Young is a former editor of The Wire, the eclectic British music magazine.
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Masaki Batoh Brain Pulse Music [Drag City; 2012] by Reed Scott Reid Rating: In his awesome Electric Eden, Rob Young writes: “In an age of rapid and unstoppable change, nostalgia and revivalism often flourish: they offer the solace o... Read Post

Guardian: “In his weighty 2010 tome Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music, Rob Young charted a century’s worth of musicians who helped define British folk. In the latter stages he rightly identifies and aligns the ofte... Read Post

History isn’t always written by the victorious; sometimes it’s just written by the loudest. That sentiment underpins Rob Young’s Electric Eden: Unearthing Britain’s Visionary Music, a chronicle of British folk that offers a sprawlin... Read Post