The Way Out is the fourth full-length album by The Books, and the first they have released in five years. A hodgepodge of genre-dodging songs, The Books mix organic instrumentals with a diverse variety of samples to create a collection that is impossible to cohesively define, traversing a unique but challenging road of risky ideas.

Wait, did Jorge Luis Borges write a pop song? “Beautiful People” was a pleasure to finish and begin again as I tried to properly map the splintering paths that this labyrinthine wonder deceives and delights with. The vocals in “Beautiful People” sound as though Jonsi and Imogen Heap had a difficult-to-understand baby, but that’s not [...]

The last time we heard from the books was on the extraordinary Dark Was The Night compilation–where they covered Nick Drake’s “Cello Song” with Jose Gonzalez. Well, The Books are back from hiatus. They’ll be heading out on tour mid November. Check out the dates and a live performance video of “The Classy Penguin” at [...]