New the Books: "Beautiful People"

The Books are set to release their new record, The Way Out, on Temporary Residence this July. Always an interesting listen, the Books are found sound collagists who pair tape recordings with folk styled instrumentation which they play themselves. For the new record, the guys amassed some 4000 tapes containing everything from hypnotherapy sessions to pitch shifted talkboy recordings, sorted out the gold and composed music for each tape collage.

Check out our first taste of the new record: Beautiful People.

Systems Officer: "Underslept"

(Originally written for and posted to Thunder on 10/31/09)

Systems Officer is the solo project of Armistead Burwell Smith IV who was a founding member of the post rock band Three Mile Pilot and continues to work as a founding member of Pinback. Underslept is the band’s first proper LP, following a self-titled EP that came out in 2004 and shares many similar sonic qualities with Pinback’s earlier records.



Underslept is out November 3, 2009 via Temporary Residence.