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Artist | The Books
Title | Thought For Food
Genre | Indie Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 38:42
Label | Temporary Residence Store | 2011
Catalog | TRR180 CD Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 227 kbps Size | 67.40 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again 4:06
02. Read, Eat, Sleep 3:49
03. All Bad Ends All 2:42
04. Contempt 3:22
05. All Our Base Are Belong To Them 4:18
06. Thankyoubranch 5:05
07. Motherless Bastard 4:11
08. Mikey Bass 2:56
09. Excess Straussess 2:08
10. Getting The Job Done 3:48
11. A Dead Fish Gains The Power Of Observation 1:08
12. Deafkids 1:09
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The Books' story began in 2000, when Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong met
through a friend in New York City. Sharing similar interests but different
backgrounds in acoustic music and found sound, Zammuto and de Jong
experimented and plunked away with a mix of melody, electronics, and
ethereal atmospherics. Eventually, with some urging by Tom Steinle of
Tomlab Records, they created what would become their debut record, "Thought
For Food", in 2002. Within a year, the Books relocated to Hot Springs, NC,
and recorded and released "The Lemon Of Pink".
With a lot of favorable word of mouth and critical buzz from the first two
records, the Books relocated again in the winter of 2004 and recorded in an
old Victorian home in North Adams, MA. These sessions culminated with the
release of "Lost And Safe" in April of 2005, their third album for Tomlab.
The band basically disappeared in the years that followed, until launching
a short tour in the autumn of 2009. Their fourth album, "Way Out", was
released by new label Temporary Residence in July 2010.
This weird and wonderful collaboration between guitarist Nick Zammuto and
violinist Paul de Jong took many by surprise in 2002. The Books' method is
relatively simple: Zammuto and de Jong combine guitar, violin, and the
occasional banjo or cello with sounds from their extensive sample
libraries. The input seems almost banal, but the music on "Thought For
Food" is anything but. The Books have an uncanny knack for spinning straw
into gold, transforming basic instrumental parts into deeply affecting
compositions. Particularly noteworthy is their skill in weaving odd
snippets into the fabric of the music. Everyone is inured to the 'wacky
vocal sample' at this stage in the game, but the Books incorporate strange
references in an organic manner that feels inevitable but manages to sound
new.
"Read, Eat, Sleep", for example, combines a slowly plucked acoustic and a
bit of vibraphone with a chopped-up recording of a spelling bee, and the
tension release that occurs as the random letters assemble themselves in
the track's final section is astonishing. "All Bad Ends All" is much
punchier, as Zammuto's jaunty guitar strums take on a percussive quality,
helping to organize the mishmash of voices that bubbles beneath. "Contempt"
incorporates dialog pulled from the Jean-Luc Godard film of the same name;
there's an eerie tension cut with bits of humor as two people discuss each
other's physical attributes, all set against plucked guitar and violin
slowly chiming in waltz time. The tracks are varied and the pacing is
exceptional, and by the time this short, unassuming album ends, admirers of
experimental indie pop will be smiling.
Debut album remastered with all new expanded artwork and lyrics.
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