The Cultch presents for one evening only, the critically-acclaimed band: THE BOOKS
Featuring Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong

WHERE: Historic Theatre, The Cultch (1895 Venables Street)

WHEN: November 25, 2009, 8PM

The Books to perform at The Cultch, offering a sneak peek at new unreleased material

"Their incredible talent as songwriters, musicians and laptop producers solidifies the massive amount of emotion they are able to squeeze out of the abstract and desultory source materials." - Exclaim! Magazine

Vancouver - The Books, who are performing at The Cultch on November 25 as part of a two-week tour of the U.S and Canada, are set to show off about a half dozen new compositions from the group's unreleased fourth album. For this upcoming presentation, each new composition is paired with exacting, synchronized videos that are often as impressive as the music itself.

Though the group's much-anticipated fourth studio album - still untitled at this time - is in the process of being recorded, these live dates will bring The Books back to fans with a taste of what's to come. It has been four years since sound collagists The Books released their last proper LP (2005's Lost and Safe), but Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong are "well underway" with their follow-up, due out in early 2010.

According to a recent interview with Pitchfork magazine, inspiration for their new album came from an eclectic array of sources, including old hypnotherapy tapes and Talkboy tape recordings:

"We started finding all these tapes in thrift shops that would just say "Talkboy" on them. We really didn't really know what they were. As it turns out, in the movie Home Alone 2, there's this audio recording device that had a pitch controller on it called the Talkboy. And on the stuff we found, kids are just going nuts; when a kid gets their first tape recorder, all of their inhibitions are cut off and they just go wild. So we made one new track on that material alone."

The Books have always defied categorization. As XLR8R once put it, "It sounds like everything from Asiatic Appalachian folk to a soundtrack for a future where robots made of empty tomato cans, dam radios, and duct tape rule the world." On the heels of three critically acclaimed releases and worldwide tours, their latest album promises to be the band's most ambitious to date.

The Books: official website     myspace

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