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Eschewing the usual criteria of chart success or acknowledged influence, the Copendium – a collection of album reviews and themed track samplers – takesenergy, originality and heaviness as its bearings. The result is afeast of obscure and neglected masterworks that together form asurprising but entirely credible new tradition. Krautrock, motorik andpost-punk, stoner and doom metal, occasionally even jazz, spoken wordand hair metal: they are all represented in a wholly persuasivesequence.Cope is the perfect guide to this novel terrain: impeccably informed, passionate, insightful and deeply funny. The Copendium is his re-imagining of a useful canon of popular music, and it is set to become required reading.