Bad Singer is still popping up in the media so here’s another round-up as 2016 comes to a close.

Year-end Lists
“A music fan who can’t carry a tune to save his life, Falconer digs into the science of singing, offering himself up as a guinea pig along the way. He might be a terrible singer, but he’s a great writer.”
— Citation from The Globe 100, The Globe and Mail‘s prestigious annual list of the year’s best books

Bad Singer also made CBC Music’s list of the best music books of 2016

Reviews
“Falconer’s naive layperson narrator functions especially well as a bridge; we do not feel intimidated by the scope and depth of the various academic fields he dives into, as Falconer himself takes the plunge and asks the questions, silly or otherwise, for us.”
— “Blue Notes: In true tone deafness, an answer to why we sing” by Emma Hooper (Literary Review of Canada; September, 2016)

“A spirited, even adventurous look at the mysteries of how the human brain perceives and processes sound—and even, on occasion, manages to make beautiful music.”
— Bad Singer officially comes out in the United States on February 14, 2017 and Kirkus Reviews is the first American publication to review it  (December 15, 2016)

Scientific Journal
The BRAMS Lab at the Université of Montréal and Ryerson University’s SMART Lab, two of the places that studied me as I wrote Bad Singer, combined their research to write a paper on me called “Effects of vocal training in a musicophile with congenital amusia” for Neurocase (December 21, 2016)

Interviews
I appeared in a TV doc called “I Got Rhythm: The Science of Song,” which aired on CBC’s The Nature of Things. Warning: contains embarrassing clip of me singing. (December 1, 2016)

I was also interviewed for “Why Do We Love Bad Singing?” by Carl Wilson. His Slate essay is a smart take on Florence Foster Jenkins and our fascination with bad singing (August 12, 2016)