NPR: Exclusive First Listen

[noddin0ff]

Wow. This one is weirdly cool. And, another group I've never heard of. Probably not for everyone, but I really like it. An album of 'found' sounds turned into music. These guys apparently hit up thrift stores and buy up abandoned tapes and videos and scrounge.

The result is a wandering, strangely engaging, hippy-dippy, not quite techno, sound trip. Lots of spoken word sound bites. The write up at NPR (click here) is trying too hard, we're not talking about the second coming here. But, it's different, surprisingly well done, and a pretty good album start to finish.

Listen to the album at this link
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...oryId=98679384

I also found a video from one of the more driving tracks. Pretty good encapsulation of the weirdness of the album in general. There's a lot more variety to be found on the album, however. Some of the more mellow speaking parts of the album, to me, are reminiscent of the intro to PT's Signify (if that gets any of you interested, heh heh).

From Pitchforks comment with the video (linked for your pleasure)..
If you're like me and made your parents buy you a Talkboy the second you walked out of Home Alone 2, this video might give you some chills. A new Books track, which they performed in Boston last week, is culled from Talkboy tapes they found in thrift stores, and, boy, was I that nasty as a 10-year-old? Eh, probably so.