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The BooksThe Lemon Of Pink Tomlab/Spunk/Inertia The Books are bucolic bustle and glitch electronica based around a fractured skeleton. The duo of Nick Zammuto and Paul DeJong have again successfully combined woody mountain music with gently ebbing scratched-up micro-beats, following their 'Thought For Food' with more of their scattered guitar/cello pitchfork-in-yer-ass-and-moonshine-on-yer-lips treasure. The two-part title track plods along as a banjo and fiddle two-step, a husky female vocal traipsing the space between. "We went through hell / All is well that ends well" sings guest Anne Doerner. Yee haw granmaw, pass me mah sampler. Disembodied characters come and go: some speak in Japanese, others in gibberish. They may well be The Books in disguise. Tape sounds, a tambourine rattle, a backwards drone, the pitter-patter of nervy strings and twiggy cracks. These are the sounds of 'The Lemon Of Pink' rocking on the porch. It's a hickory dickory Sesame Street for the folktronic generation, a unique critter that'll sit on yer shoulder and blow tobaccie smoke in yer ear.  |
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