often raunchy and instantly accessible pop package, The Neptunes became an unstoppable force and an unavoidable presence on chart radio; a 2004 survey found that at one point, 43% of songs played on US airwaves had been graced by Pharrell’s Midas touch. That same year, The Neptunes ...
Published in autumn last year, Like Magic in the Streets has a somewhat long-winded subtitle: Orange Juice, Aztec Camera, the Go-Betweens, the Smiths, the Blue Nile and the End of Romance. It might just as well be subtitled after situationist Guy Debord’s 1959 film, On the Passage of...