I accidentally downloaded this band by accident. That's how redundant my life is. Yeah I download shit, so what? I justify it by buying a dozen CDs a month, so there. Throw The Books at me. Musically speaking, if you could somehow record all of your thoughts and conversations when you're smoking the purest of chronic and make it into a CD, The Books, Lost and Safe is what you would end up with. It's pure, agonizing, Barnes and Noble, coffee shop background music. These dudes are fucking weird man, they need to lay off of the knife hits and listen to what the hell it is they're doing.

This is The Books third album, all of which are on Tomlab Records, whom thankfully didn't make a dime off of me. The Books are a couple of New York nerds who love making random, trippy music consisting of sample-mania from hell and use of off-the-wall instruments like banjos and cellos. These guys are obsessed with the whole "book" concept. Somehow they even managed to make the liner notes smell like your old math book from fourth grade. Maybe they're teachers or librarians or something. I bet they wear Farfromgroovin t-shirts and drive around in their VW Bus all night listening to My Bloody Valentine while trying to score a sack. There is way too much ambient bullshit for my mind to comprehend. It's like listening to two conversations and watching a game show with house music playing in the background. I can picture these two ( Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong) sitting around making this shit - stoned to the bejesus belt and hitting random buttons saying, "Yeah bro this will be sweet; where are my Zigzags man?"

If you want a good comparison to these guys, try American Football with samples (I also heard someone compare them to American Analog Set, which means it's bedtime for Bonzo, bitch). Crack open this CD sedative if you have insomnia, because it will take you down to nappy-land in record time. I'll probably get crucified for not blowing a load all over myself for this album, but hey I say fuck it. I only write about what I hear and how it makes me feel, and this sounds alot like snoring and ultimately makes me feel well rested.