What will people thousands of years in the future think of us if they listen to the music of today? What if they spin Hilary Duff and think none of us had any sense of rhythm or intonation? What if ...

You come up with a “bunch of pre-Mesopotam-ian barbarians who did not use forks or phonics.” Don’t take my word for it. That’s how Scythian describes itself. But they are also raucous and joyful, and ...