Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the '80s Studio One Flowers of Shanghai evokes a

Flowers of Shanghai evokes a vanished world of decadence and cruelty

Aftermath is a masterly work charting the largely unwritten journey back to order from the chaos that is left when a family breaks apart

and reveals an early screen performance by Sting

and Lauren must make her voice heard for the sake of those she loves

Jenny Lee Lindberg (of Warpaint)

Shiny and New: Ten Moments of Pop Genius that Defined the '80s Studio One Flowers of Shanghai evokes aFuture classic pop cultural history of the 80s, told through the ten defining singles one from each year of the decade. The '80s were about big ideas writ large new money, new style, gender fluidity, gay pride, attritional politics, the 'special relationship', nuclear fear, AIDS, cocaine, ecstasy, tabloid royalty, the rise of urban pop, and ultimately geopolitical chaos. Dylan Jones' history of the decade in pop frames the '80s through some of its