Said the Gramophone — The Books - "A Cold Freezin' Night" "Culture, I would argue, is the most widespread addiction in the history of nature. The avocado is, at its core, a smooth-skinned fruit. The bumps that you see on most avocados are in... more info

Perfect Porridge — This is the first video from the upcoming Books album, The Way Out, which drops July 20 on on Temporary Residence Ltd. The story is the band has been picking up those Talkboy toys (the recording doohickeys made famous in “Home Alone”) and used t... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — I have really enjoyed the new material that we’ve heard from The Books. This includes “A Cold Freezin’ Night”. The music video was just premiered on Pitchfork.TV. It features a lot of disjointed clips of kids, making use of all the samples of... more info

Pitchfork - Forkcast — "A Cold Freezin' Night", the second taste from pop-collagist duo the Books' forthcoming long-player The Way Out (out July 20 on Temporary Residence), is built around samples of kids insulting each other and issuing grave physical threats. For the vid... more info

Stereogum — It’s worth noting the Philly Phanatic, a staple of my childhood, makes an appearance in the Books’ frantic video collage for “A Cold Freezin’ Night.” When Jessica wrote up the track, she mentioned the samples of “kids whispering and singi... more info

We All Want Someone To Shout For — The Books already gave us a taste of new album, The Way Out (comes out July 20th via Temporary Residence), when they gave us a mp3 of new song “Beautiful People”. Now Fader has posted another new song called “A Cold Freezin’ Night”. The sam... more info

Stereogum — Frantic samples and a persistent quarter note beat play underneath the main feature of this song: Samples of kids whispering and singing into tape recorders. All their words sound like confessions, without the guilt — one girl repeats “I wish I w... more info

The World Forgot — If you can remember all the way back to 2009 the Dessner brothers (from The National) helped out Red Hot Organization with a little compilation album entitled Dark Was The Night (amazon) (itunes).  To be honest it’s ok if you’ve forgotten this s... more info

Pitchfork — The Way Out, the new album from sound-collagists the Books, is due July 20 from Temporary Residence; you can hear "Beautiful People", a song from the album, here. And this fall, the duo will bring their intensely visual live show to venues across ... more info

Pitchfork - Tours — 06-21 Chicago, IL - Jay Pritzker Pavillion (Millennium Park)08-13 North Adams, MA - Solid Sound Festival09-04 Monticello, NY - ATP Festival09-29 Philadelphia, PA - The Trocadero09-30 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club10-01 Durham, NC - Shaefer Theater10-03... more info