HMM. After loving The Wicked and the Divine, I was excited to check out Gillen and McKelvie's earlier work. Phonogram promised an interesting premise but delivered a lot of confusion for me. I felt it was hard to follow, and not just because I didn't get all the band references. Also, the protagonist was pretty lame. Overall I enjoyed the story anyway, it did come together by the end in such a way as to make almost complete sense.