The Books - Lost and Safe (2005)

Perhaps to understand The Books, it is important to understand the concept of "mind races." All of you shoud be familiar with mind races, however, you may know them by a different name, or no name at all. Mind races are what happen to you late on Sunday night, as you lie in bed, thoughts of the week ahead inter-mingling with strange flashbacks and distorted, almost ethereal, recollections of the drunken night(s) before. Random images, sounds, thoughts bouncing around your head as you lie in the state that is not asleep, but not really awake either. It is a strange state of being, one that is not quite real, but that is deeply rooted in reality. The Books music is perfect mind races music. It comprises of softly played instrumentation, mixed with electronic bips & bleeps, and a variety of strange, sound bytes. In many of the songs, random pieces of dialogue from varying strange sources are incorporated into the music, over which, the lead singer sings in his hushed, almost computer-like vocal, echoing the same words. The dialogue ranges from upbeat to quite bizarre at times. Confused? Lost and Safe is probably not everyone's cup of tea, but it is great, chilled out music, to fill up your head space, when you need something a little off kilter to keep you on the level.

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