Eschewing the usual criteria of chart success or acknowledged influence The Copendium"
- a collection of album reviews & themed track samplers
- takes energy originality & heaviness as its bearings. The result is a feast of obscure & neglected masterworks that together form a surprising but entirely credible new tradition. Krautrock motorik & post-punk stoner & doom metal occasionally even jazz spoken word & hair metal: they are all represented in a wholly persuasive sequence. " Cope" is the perfect guide to this novel terrain: impeccably informed passionate insightful & deeply funny. " The Copendium" is his re-imagining of a useful canon of popular music & it is set to become required reading. " The Copendium" is unlike anything you have read before."