Blake Mills

Fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid's "Daisy Jones & the Six" — the best-selling, blockbuster book that was released in 2019 — are incredibly excited for the forthcoming Amazon Prime Video miniseries based on the novel. But perhaps even more exciting is the fact that the series's creators also produced a live album called "Aurora" for the band. It's been a long time for fans of the book. Let's see what I mean. The fictional, titular band on "Daisy Jones & the Six" creates their own '70s masterpiece album, "Aurora." They broke up and never to meet again. The book is a fake oral history of how the band came together and how it fell apart so dramatically at the time of the company's reign. But if there's one thing that's a little annoying about the book, it's that the songs they spend so much time talking about aren't real! Reid includes a rundown of the songs and their lyrics at the back of the book, as well as a list of songs that inspired the book (and, perhaps, a lot of Fleetwood Mac). But there is no way to listen to the songs. Until now.

By Matt Mitchell "To be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be stunning only for a short time," Vietnamese-American poet Ocean Vuong wrote in his book "On Earth We're Beautiful." The performer born Mike Hadreas, Perfume Genius, evokes the same emotion onstage. Hadreas has deconstructed the banalities of attraction and attractiveness by human mobility, and his book is an exclamation of how our bodily prisons can become smaller and strong. Hadreas' latest album, Ungly Season, which he affectionately refers to as "the dance record," was written and recorded right before this project's fluttering, beguiling grandeur. Despite the two-year gap between them, the records were originally scheduled to be released within a year of each other — and the pop alchemy of Immediately was introduced in reaction to the process of composing Ugly Season.