Kurt Vonnegut’s Galápagos turns human extinction into an evolutionary joke. Brian Eno answers with Another Green World, a record that feels less like the end of the world than the sound of it continuing without us.
Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? asks what proves we are human when life itself starts to feel artificial. Queens of the Stone Age answer with …Like Clockwork, a record full of damage, dread, glamour, and the uneasy machinery of feeling.
Cold War Kids’ Loyalty to Loyalty gives Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother a raw, unsettled companion — sharp enough to match the book’s fear, fast enough to keep pace with its fight.