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Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You Kindle Edition

by Scotto Moore (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 166 ratings
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Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You is a story of music, obsession, violence, and madness by Scotto Moore

I was home alone on a Saturday night when I experienced the most beautiful piece of music I had ever heard in my life.

Beautiful Remorse is the hot new band on the scene, releasing one track a day for ten days straight. Each track has a mysterious name and a strangely powerful effect on the band's fans.

A curious music blogger decides to investigate the phenomenon up close by following Beautiful Remorse on tour across Texas and Kansas, realizing along the way that the band’s lead singer, is hiding an incredible, impossible secret.

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"Scotto Moore understands a key truth about Ziggy Stardust: Rock and roll messiahs are really fucking scary.” ―Kieron Gillen

"A wickedly clever amalgam of science fiction, horror, and contemporary music that makes one reconsider whether Ziggy Stardust’s arrival here on Earth might not, in fact, be such a good thing... I could have read Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You in one sitting, but I stretched it over two nights because I couldn’t bear for it to end... Buy this book." ―Elizabeth Hand in Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine

“Absolutely stunning. A fast-paced, psychedelic blur of music, tech, and things way beyond either. I picked it up, and it simply would not let me go until the final page was read.” ―Ramez Naam

"A lean, quick read with no fat. The clever, exciting story mixes weird fiction with an engaging and mysterious plot." ―Library Journal

"My fave [book] of the new year... wherein a real life, superbly malevolent, female Ziggy Stardust hits the road with her band and wreaks havoc. Hilarious & eerie as hell." ―Elizabeth Hand

"Moore writes with a playful jauntiness that buoys the growing darkness rather than undercutting it. His details about a certain subset of music nerds give the story some great texture... the ride is a fun one and the soundtrack is killer." ―Locus

About the Author

SCOTTO MOORE is a Seattle playwright, whose works include the black comedy H.P. Lovecraft: Stand-up Comedian!, the sci-fi adventures Duel of the Linguist Mages and interlace [falling star], the gamer-centric romantic comedy Balconies, and the a cappella sci-fi musical, Silhouette. He is the creator of The Coffee Table, a comedic web series about a couple that discovers their new coffee table is an ancient alien artifact that sends their house shooting through the void. He is also behind the popular Lovecraft-themed meme generator, Things That Cannot Save You (“a catalog of your doom”), which spawned his novella, Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You. Moore's debut novel, Battle of the Linguist Mages, was met with widespread critical acclaim, with the New York Times calling it "...an audacious, genre-bending whirlwind."

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07HF283QW
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Tordotcom (February 5, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 5, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1928 KB
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  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 130 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1250314909
  • Customer Reviews:
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Scotto Moore is the author of science fantasy novels WILD MASSIVE and BATTLE OF THE LINGUIST MAGES, and YOUR FAVORITE BAND CANNOT SAVE YOU, a sci-fi/horror novella, both published by Tordotcom. For fourteen years, he was an active playwright in Seattle, with major productions nearly every year during that time, and 45 short plays produced during that time as well. He wrote book, lyrics, and music for the a cappella sci-fi musical SILHOUETTE, which won the 2018 Gregory Falls Award for Outstanding New Play, presented by Theatre Puget Sound. He also wrote, directed and produced three seasons of the sci-fi/comedy web series THE COFFEE TABLE; and wrote and starred in the horror/comedy play H.P. LOVECRAFT: STAND-UP COMEDIAN!

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Jay
4.0 out of 5 stars Unique, Fast Paced Fun
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2023
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I've read several reviews for this book tha
t insist it should be longer. That we should get to know the characters more deeply. That the book lost something by not offering us this opportunity.

I strongly disagree with these sentiments.

This is a novella, not a full length novel. It is relentless in its pacing, yanking our protagonist and their acquaintances out of their unorthodox but relatively normal lives and into something far stranger than they're prepared to face, and forcing them to adjust and react to increasing strangeness of rapidly increasing intensity.

If this book had taken longer to ramp up, the pacing would have suffered. Had it paused for flashbacks, the pacing would have been ruined and rising tension shattered.

Fortunately, this tale did neither of those things. Instead, it introduces us to its cast, gives us just enough time to understand their version of a normal life...and then it yanks that rug out from under us, sending us plummeting down a rabbit hole with a rock music soundtrack, the understanding of normal to which we've only just begun to adjust gone as quickly as we came to grasp it.

The result of this rather bold choice is a delightfully strange, somewhat dark, but very brisk story that is just as long as it needs to be. Which is why I highly recommend it.

If you're just dipping your toes into the pond of weird fiction, this is an excellent starting point. If you're a fan of Tales from the Gas Station or authors like David Wong, you're going to love this, too.
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Lacey R.
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in the United States on March 29, 2019
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My only complaint is the author is the reader. I personally read the characters out loud in a better way that flowed better and gave a touch of cool to the characters that he was not capable of doing. I think he was not the best choice to be the reader, even though it is his words. I just don't like how he made the female characters sound like their tone was bit**y and would cut off at the low end of sound quickly after the spoken words of the women. It would have sounded better if he read the women to sound confident and cool instead of quick to be like " I am soo much better than you" kind of tone, and I am a bit**"
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Timy
3.0 out of 5 stars It has a strange mix of music, humor, horror, sci-fi, maybe a tinge of Cthulhu mythos
Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2019
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It's been a while since I've finished Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You but I still don't really know what to think about it. The first word that comes to mind is, weird.

At the beginning I was hooked. The story is about a popular music blogger who discovers a new band called Beautiful Remorse and shares their music with the world. Unexpectedly, it seems like everyone who hears it, gets somehow addicted to it no matter what are their preferences in music. The band releases one song a day, and as they get more popular, the blogger decides to seek out the band, asking for an interview from their lead singer, Airee Mcpherson. This meeting, however sets unexpected events into motion, and the blogger finds himself on the road with the band, witnessing things no one would believe. He is unable to leave, fearing someone would take his place and he is not ready to let the music go. Not even when lives are at stake.

At one hand I like the fact that the main character is a blogger, though we only get a small glimpse into his personal life. He has a bunch of other blogger friends he keeps in touch with online, talking about music and sharing the news. I could relate to him, wanting to be the first to post a new song, a new band, to show it to the world. It's a bit similar to the book blogging world, we all want to be first to post a review of a popular upcoming book, and we also have online communities. Imagine you are a book blogger and you get a chance to not only meet, but make an interview with one of the upcoming popular authors. Would you take it? Of course you would, just as this music blogger couldn't miss his chance. Things are going well, until strange things start happening - Beautiful Remorse's music generates a strange energy which affects everyone who hears it, allowing Airee to mentally manipulate them. After a while his goal becomes to learn what exactly is going on, while Airee is on her way to destroy the world.

I liked the writing itself, the prose and the way music was described, but felt like this book would have benefited from being about a 100 pages longer, so we could ease into this blogger's life, get to know him a bit more. Or any other characters, really. I found Airee intriguing if a bit - okay, a lot - crazy, and wanted to learn more about the background of those revelations we get in the last 20% or so of the book. Somewhere about the middle from an intriguing mystery book we are suddenly thrown into a sci-fi-like story with alien monsters without as much as a warning. And it wasn't even the last of the surprises awaiting me.

Overall, Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You is a quick paced read, perfect for a road trip or just a quiet afternoon with a book. If you look for something different, it has a strange mix of music, humor, horror, sci-fi, maybe a tinge of Cthulhu mythos. If you liked We Sould Our Souls, you might like Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You as well.
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Callum
4.0 out of 5 stars Compulsively Readable New Weird Novella
Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2019
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Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You is a weird, compulsively readable Lovecraftian adventure. While it suffers from some shallow side-characters, the sheer insanity of the plot and the great first-person narration make it an easy recommendation.

When a music blogger stumbles across a band on SoundCloud that makes him listen to a 6 minute track on repeat for hours at a time, he has to announce it to everyone he knows. But the nature of the band, who are releasing one new song a day up to the full album of 10 songs being complete, is in question as the effects of their songs on people get weirder and weirder.

Much like the music by Beautiful Remorse in Your Favorite Band... hooks the listener in, this novella is immensely readable. It’s rare for me to feel such drive to just keep on reading and reading, but I sat on the floor and just devoured this story. It’s hard to express the quality of writing that can make a story so addictive that you feel such a drive to keep reading while being entirely unaware of your surroundings, but Scotto Moore manages it greatly here. I loved how the story escalated, and I thought the main character was a great narrator, despite his awful decision making.

I would have liked to know more about other members of the band than just the lead singer, but that is also the nature of the beast with a novella.

I can’t wait to see if there will be anything more written in this world, or just what Scotto Moore comes up with next. I’ve never read anything of his before but now I’ll be keeping an eye out with keen interest. 4 stars.
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JS
4.0 out of 5 stars Had a great time reading this
Reviewed in Canada on February 20, 2020
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If the movie 'Almost Famous' had a cataclysmic collision with the crack in Amy Pond's wall this book would probably be the result. It's a fun read and wonderfully imaginative.
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FeydRautha
5.0 out of 5 stars Une lovecrafterie rock'n roll
Reviewed in France on February 26, 2019
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Scotto Moore a choisi d’imaginer une version moderne et rock de La musique d’Erich Zann. Ne cherchez pas là un spoiler, le texte de Moore part dans une toute autre direction. Scotto Moore avait de quoi écrire un ébouriffant roman de 300 pages, mais la fin du monde étant plus proche qu’on ne le pensait, il a préféré aller à l’essentiel et sortir Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You sous la forme d’une ébouriffante novella de 127 pages. Ébouriffante parce que ça va vite et que le scénario est complètement barge. Un vrai bonheur à lire, en somme.

Le choix de la narration à la première personne, comme HPL l’a souvent fait, permet cette immersion rapide dans la psyché d’un homme qui perd ses points de SAN (santé mentale) plus rapidement qu’un débutant au jeu de rôle L’Appel de Cthulhu. Ici notre narrateur est MPC, blogueur (pauvre type !) des dernières tendances musicales. Un peu par hasard, mais pas que, il tombe sur le premier morceau d’un groupe inconnu, Beautiful Remorse, qui poste sans aucune autre information sur le site Bandcamp le meilleur morceau qu’il ait jamais écouté de toute sa vie et qu’il écoutera en boucle toute la nuit. Dès le lendemain, le groupe poste un deuxième morceau, et il n’échappe encore une fois pas à la transe. Le bruit commence à se répandre et faisant appel à ses entrées dans le milieu, alors que sort le troisième morceau, MPC réussit à contacter la chanteuse du groupe, Airee MacPherson, qui l’invite à leur premier concert à Austin, Texas, durant lequel sera dévoilé le quatrième morceau.

De chapitre en chapitre, et de morceaux en morceaux, MPC va suivre la tournée du groupe. Le concert d’Austin ayant tourné à l’émeute, le groupe se renomme Augmented 4th. (Parenthèse musicale pour ceux d’entre vous qui auraient séché les cours de solfège, une quatrième augmentée est ce qu’on appelle un triton, un intervalle de trois tons avec la fondamentale d’un accord. Un truc très dissonant. Le moyen-âge l’appelait diabolus in musica et Black Sabbath en a fait dès son premier titre une des pierres angulaires du metal. Vous pouvez l’entendre sur le titre Black Sabbath dont le riff est entièrement basé sur cet intervalle). Cette parenthèse avait bien évidemment aussi pour but de vous amener à deviner que tout ceci ne peut que partir en vrille, la musique créée par Airee MacPherson dévoilant des propriétés psychiques pas naturelles du tout. La brève tournée du groupe va ainsi avoir des répercussions… comment dire… tentaculaires.

Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You est un texte à la fois rock, complètement barré, affreux et franchement poilant. Vous pourrez bien sûr y lire une parabole sur les nouveaux messies que sont les rock stars, si vraiment vous voulez vous enquiquiner à réfléchir à des trucs terre à terre. Mais sinon, une simple promesse d’apocalypse c’est chouette aussi. On aurait certes souhaité qu’il soit plus long, ce texte, ce qui aurait permis de développer les personnages, de faire un récit plus immersif de la tournée d’un groupe dont les membres sont pour le moins particuliers. On aurait aimé sombrer un peu plus encore dans l’ombre de la folie d’Airee MacPherson. Mais on devra se contenter de ce petit morceau de frisson lovecraftien. C’est déjà bien.
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Randy Inglis
2.0 out of 5 stars Some good ideas let down by poor execution
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 21, 2019
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The overall plot was enjoyable and I like the book conceptually but found the prose awkward and over reliant on profanity.

There was little to no character development and the only motivations of the antagonist were shown through pretty poor exposition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of fun and great storytelling
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 26, 2019
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This was a great read, short, funny and with an ever increasing weirdness level that never becomes a mess. Will look out for more by this author.
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