| Artist |
The Books |
| Album Title: |
The Way Out |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Art Rock |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
07/10/2010 |
| Label |
Temporary Residence Ltd. |
| Catalog No |
TRR183 CD |
| Bar Code No |
6 56605 31832 5 |
| Packaging |
Jewelcase |
| Tracks |
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Group Autogenics I (3:43)
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| 2.
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IDKT (1:42)
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| 3.
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I Didn't Know That (3:38)
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| 4.
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A Cold Freezin' Night (3:22)
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| 5.
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Beautiful People (2:52)
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I Am Who I Am (3:01)
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| 7.
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Chain Of Missing Links (4:30)
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All You Need Is A Wall (3:44)
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| 9.
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Thirty Incoming (4:57)
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| 10.
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A Wonderful Phrase By Gandhi (0:21)
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| 11.
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We Bought The Flood (5:04)
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| 12.
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The Story Of Hip Hop (4:30)
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| 13.
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Free Translator (3:50)
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| 14.
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Group Autogenics II (4:52)
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| Date Acquired |
02/06/2019 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Amazon |
| Purchase Price |
15.00 |
Web Links |
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Notes |
Composed, recorded, produced at home. Additional engineering and production at the Hospital, London.
On decal: the new album - available in multiple cover variations
Composed By, Recorded By, Producer – The Books
Engineer [Additional], Producer [Additional] – Drew Brown
Mixed By [Assistance], Mastered By [Assistance] – Brendon Downey, Paul De Jong
Mixed By, Mastered By – Nick Zammuto
Produced At – The Hospital
Engineered At – The Hospital
Barcode: 6 56605 31832 5
Matrix / Runout: 0E258<7205>TRR183
Matrix / Runout: WWW.BELLWETHERMFG.COM
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Analyzed Folder: Books, The - The Way Out_dr.txt
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DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR10 0.00 dB -12.95 dB 3:44 01-Group Autogenics I
DR8 0.00 dB -11.28 dB 1:42 02-IDKT
DR9 0.00 dB -11.48 dB 3:38 03-I Didn't Know That
DR6 0.00 dB -8.49 dB 3:22 04-A Cold Freezin' Night
DR7 0.00 dB -9.12 dB 2:53 05-Beautiful People
DR6 0.00 dB -7.23 dB 3:02 06-I Am Who I Am
DR7 0.00 dB -8.98 dB 4:31 07-Chain Of Missing Links
DR9 0.00 dB -12.06 dB 3:45 08-All You Need Is A Wall
DR7 0.00 dB -10.03 dB 4:57 09-Thirty Incoming
DR13 -1.62 dB -16.35 dB 0:22 10-A Wonderful Phrase By Gandhi
DR9 0.00 dB -11.35 dB 5:04 11-We Bought The Flood
DR7 0.00 dB -9.56 dB 4:30 12-The Story Of Hip Hop
DR10 0.00 dB -12.93 dB 3:50 13-Free Translator
DR8 0.00 dB -11.92 dB 4:52 14-Group Autogenics II
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Number of Files: 14
Official DR Value: DR8
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| Reviews |
AllMusic Review by K. Ross Hoffman:
"Welcome to a new beginning" declares a voice at the start of The Way Out, and this album does indeed mark a fresh new chapter for the Books: a return to record-making five years after the fantastic Lost and Safe, on a new label, with a newly open-ended, wide-ranging approach to their work. It may not initially sound that way: opener "Group Autogenics I," one of several pieces that draw on guided meditation-style self-help recordings, feels almost like Books-by-numbers, with a gently humorous, disorienting oddness, juxtaposed with genuinely deeply relaxing sonics, that will be immediately familiar to fans of their past albums. After that, though, the duo stretches beyond its comfort zone in multiple directions at once, pushing at the boundaries of an already utterly singular style. The acoustic strings (primarily guitar and cello) that dominated their earlier output are still present, but they share space with a dizzying array of instrumental and quasi-instrumental sounds, from twinkling music boxes to a full-scale sample-generated orchestra of archaic brass and woodwinds. And while scavenged spoken word samples remain the most defining element of the Books' music, anchoring each of these cuts save for the four sung, lyric-based "proper songs" (including the gloriously geeky, math-worshiping chorale "Beautiful People," which announces, slightly disingenuously: "We genuflect before pure abstraction"), they're less concerned with constructing linguistic puzzles out of their samples here -- cleverly editing them to evince a sublimely witty illogic and absurdity -- than with exploring their emotional nuances and often surreal humanity. Most tracks focus on a small number of voices, creating a sense of context and resonance without necessarily allowing for full comprehension. Hence, we get a tentative, intimate series of answering machine messages; a nonsensical bedtime tale about a Peter Rabbit-like character named Hip Hop; an inexplicably prickly grammarian vehemently insisting that "I Am Who I Am." "A Cold Freezin' Night" is a hilarious, slightly chilling tour de force built around a battle of (increasingly violent) words between a young brother and sister, set to a thumping disco beat. "I Didn't Know That" is even more striking musically -- the closest thing yet to a Books pop hit, and definitely the funkiest they've ever been, recalling Squarepusher's nimble bass playing and Akufen's micro-sampled funk barrages. The stated intention for The Way Out was for each track to be "its own rabbit hole," and the album does indeed manage to survey an impressively disparate set of worlds and modes. Still, each one remains readily recognizable as belonging to the Books' own unique, unequivocal universe, which, happily, seems to be expanding at least twice as rapidly as our own.
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