Mood Machine

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Mood Machine
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Author Liz Pelly
Language English
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Publication date
7 January 2025
Publication place United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-399-71884-4

Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist is a 2025 book by Liz Pelly, a music journalist and adjunct professor at New York University, that critically examines the music streaming platform Spotify. [1] [2] [3]

Reception

The book was described as "a savage indictment of Spotify" in The Guardian , where it was featured as a 'Book of the Day'. [4] The Daily Telegraph gave it 4 out of 5 stars, called it a "vital addition" to the writing about Spotify and other streaming technology, and said it "isn’t just a niche music-industry book: it asks much bigger questions about economic power, the value of art and the atomisation of society." [5] Vulture said it "stands out as the definitive book on how we should think about Spotify as a phenomenon". [6]

References

  1. ↑ Hsu, Hua (December 23, 2024). "Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome?". The New Yorker .
  2. ↑ Segal, Victoria (March 2, 2025). "How Spotify is ruining your music taste". The Times .
  3. ↑ Ramírez, Noelia (20 September 2025). "Liz Pelly, the journalist who uncovered Spotify's fake artist farms: 'In an hour they produce dozens of songs'". El País . Retrieved 30 December 2025.
  4. ↑ Petridis, Alexis (2025-03-05). "Mood Machine by Liz Pelly review – a savage indictment of Spotify". The Guardian . ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2025-03-21.
  5. ↑ French-Morris, Kate (6 March 2025). "The chilling truth about Spotify's 'Orwellian' design". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 31 January 2025.
  6. ↑ Quah, Nicholas (14 January 2025). "You Can't Outrun Spotify". Vulture . Retrieved 31 December 2025.


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