A magical mystery tour for the 21st century, Phil Hubbard weaves a delightful narrative around the vibrant underground electronic music scene that draws on the English landscape and in turn defines the nation's very identity. Comes with a fantastic playlist to boot.

Neil Mason, Editor, Moonbuilding, UK

Both an elegant mapping of contemporary British electronic and hauntological music through its geographical imaginaries, and a social and cultural history of the present moment, Listening to Landscape is a political and poetic exploration of the (Wyrd) contemporary urge to evoke lost futures, spectral nationhood and eerie rurality in sonic form. Essential reading for fans, critics and academics alike.

Julian Holloway, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Phil Hubbard proves a companionable spirit guide to a musical terrain that, if haunted by a yesterday that was perversely both more pastoral and futuristic, cannot easily be dismissed as pure nostalgia, for, as he shows, artists working in this medium (and no other word will do) have often articulated something about our uneasy political present and our ongoing relationship with an environment threatened like never before by climate change. Timely stuff for a time out of joint.

Travis Elborough, author of Atlas of Vanishing Places (2019)