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Artist | The Books
Title | The Lemon Of Pink
Genre | Indie Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 37:25
Label | Temporary Residence Store | 2011
Catalog | TR181 CD Rip | 2016
Bitrate | 232 kbps Size | 67.51 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. The Lemon Of Pink I 4:40
02. The Lemon Of Pink II 1:35
03. Tokyo 3:43
04. Bonanza 0:52
05. S Is For Evrysing 3:32
06. Explanation Mark 0:19
07. There Is No There 3:36
08. Take Time 3:36
09. Don't Even Sing About It 4:09
10. The Future, Wouldn't That Be Nice 3:15
11. A True Story Of A Story Of True Love 4:25
12. That Right Ain't Shit 2:48
13. PS 0:55
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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.
Like 2002's "Thought For Food", 2004's "The Lemon Of Pink" combines
experimental collage technique with an organic, folky mixture of banjo,
guitar, violin, simple vocal melodies, and snippets of conversation. The
collage technique snaps like that of the United States of America, but is
used to introduce glitches in the melodic elements, whereas the USA
attempted to subvert the tradition of the pop form. The title track's
straightforward, melancholic phrasing and subtle string accompaniment are
not unlike Cat Power's work with the Dirty Three, mostly due to Anne
Doerner's lovely vocals, or the more ambitiously pop elements of Chicago
post-rock.
The song sprawls into a low-intensity instrumental collage where silence
and elements of timbre cut through the melody to create glitches in an
otherwise tranquil environment. The sample for sample's sake kitsch that
has dragged down quite a few artists is not a problem here - wonderfully
wrought clips like the welcoming voice on "Tokyo" make the rhythm of
speaking into a fetish, toying with it, breaking it, and building it back.
This is also used, less effectively, on tracks like "Take Time", where a
simple phrase becomes an unphased minimalist backdrop for experimentation.
It isn't often that one finds an American artist with such a mastery of
collage technique and a desire to incorporate traditional folk instruments
and melodies. Like the Notwist or Badly Drawn Boy, the Books open up
territory for relaxed electro-acoustic listening without compromising their
creative process. A lovely recording.
Breakthrough second album remastered with all new expanded artwork and
lyrics.
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