I Don’t Like Shit… turns 10: the woozy blur that put Earl Sweatshirt on a new path

thefader.com:

The 2010s was a revolutionary time to be coming of age as a music fan. All you needed was an open mind, solid broadband connection, and a sizable iPod Classic, and the world was your oyster.

It was around this time the traditional walls between genres began to erode and the pipeline from artist to fan became shorter, leading to a different kind of artist to emerge.

It’s this generation of inquisitive and probing artists, who were crafting the 2010s in their image, that Liam Inscoe-Jone writes about in his new book Songs in the Key of MP3: The New Icons of the Internet Age.

Out April 3, Inscoe-Jones explores the era through five artists who established themselves in such an open and amorphous time: Dev Hynes (Blood Orange), FKA twigs, Oneohtrix Point Never, SOPHIE, and Earl Sweatshirt.