“This meditation on the spectral afterlives of English culture offers a compelling account of the significance of hauntology within postwar British music and culture. Drawing together critical theory, media archaeology, and close readings of sonic and visual culture, the book traces the persistence of forgotten promises across the landscapes of English popular memory. It illuminates how British music became a privileged site for negotiating nostalgia, temporality, and cultural decay, exploring topics ranging from public broadcasting and electronic experimentation to lost past futures and postindustrial melancholy. Fascinating and deeply insightful, this important contribution to contemporary cultural criticism captures a cultural moment that maybe many of the participants consciously didn’t recognize they were making, yet one that has profoundly shaped the sensibility of the present.”