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Chal Ravens works for Novara Media and is the host of No Tags, a music discussion podcast.
In our atomised, fragmented society, newness in pop music can be increasingly hard to uncover. Tribune invited Chal Ravens to discuss the rate of innovation — and the cultural position of music in the 2020s — with fellow music journalist Liam Inscoe-Jones.
A new essay collection by veteran music critic Simon Reynolds tracks how electronic music’s future-forward tendency became sounds that eulogised progress in the twenty-first century.