A new generation of music critics grapples with the eternal question--what album would you bring to a desert island, and why?

Featuring original contributions from today's leading music critics, Marooned is a revealing snapshot of the current state of pop music criticism. A follow-up and homage to Greil Marcus's rock-and-roll classic Stranded, Marooned asks the same question: What album would you bring to a desert island, and why?

WITH ESSAYS BY: Matt Ashare * Tom Breihan * Aaron Burgess * Jon Caramanica * Daphne Carr * Jeff Chang * Ian Christie * Kandia Crazy Horse * John Darnielle * Laina Dawes * Geeta Dayal * Rob Harvilla * Jess Harvell * Michaelangelo Matos * Anthony Miccio * Amy Phillips * Dave Queen * Ned Raggett * Simon Reynolds * Chris Ryan * Scott Seward * Greg Tate * Derek Taylor * Douglas Wolk

A new generation of music critics grapples with the eternal
question--what album would you bring to a desert island, and why?

Featuring original contributions from today's leading music critics,
Marooned is a revealing snapshot of the current state of pop music
criticism. A follow-up and homage to Greil Marcus's rock-and-roll classic
Stranded, Marooned asks the same question: What album would
you bring to a desert island, and why?

WITH ESSAYS BY: Matt Ashare * Tom Breihan * Aaron Burgess * Jon Caramanica
* Daphne Carr * Jeff Chang * Ian Christie * Kandia Crazy Horse * John
Darnielle * Laina Dawes * Geeta Dayal * Rob Harvilla *
Jess Harvell * Michaelangelo Matos * Anthony Miccio * Amy Phillips *
Dave Queen * Ned Raggett * Simon Reynolds * Chris Ryan * Scott Seward *
Greg Tate * Derek Taylor * Douglas Wolk