

The Thought for Food (CD)
Virtual Indie-Rock? Tom & Jerry haunted by the ghosts of post-rock? Post-laptop glitch and Clicks & Cuts? An attempt to outdo everything or simply another candidate for the nonsense album of 2002? "Thought for Food" explores the limits of instrumental trickery on top of careful sample-database management. They are obsessed with their respective autobiography of sound and create a work rich in reference to TV, vintage newscasts, redneck evangelists, and hippie gurus. The result is energetic, idealistic, feet whipping, unsettling, and disturbing at times...but always guards a delicate instrumental flow against digital sterility.
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| Tracklisting | |
| Disk | 1 | |
| 1 | Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again |
| 2 | Read, Eat, Sleep |
| 3 | All Bad Ends All |
| 4 | Contempt |
| 5 | All Our Base Are Belong to Them |
| 6 | Thankyoubranch |
| 7 | Motherless Bastard |
| 8 | Mikey Bass |
| 9 | Excess Straussess |
| 10 | Getting the Done Job |
| 11 | Dead Fish Gains the Power of Observation |
| 12 | Deafkids |
| Eric Perkins
- Waltham, MA, USA |
| I tend to like albums with catchy songs to which I can sing along. Albums with songs that I can throw on a mix CD for myself or friends. This is not one of those albums, by a long shot. Any of these songs mixed in with your other music is going to sound pretty wonky. But I still like The Books and I really like this album. I like to listen to it through my headphones, in a dark room, with my eyes closed. Listening to the album is cathartic as each song elicits a new emotion or blend of emotions. Good stuff, as long as you don't HAVE to be able to dance to your music. | |