No TypeBooks on TapeSings the Blues

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Monday, September 1, 2003

Books on Tape

Sings the Blues

CD: No Type (2003) IMNT 088

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Tracklisting

1 Laptop Blues [36s]

2 Republic Of [4m45s]

3 See You In Tokyo [3m57s]

4 She’s Dead To Me [4m27s]

5 Pointe du pied [2m48s]

6 Girls Up Front [4m51s]

7 Death In the Sex Shop [2m06s]

8 Siberian Soundsystem [3m27s]

9 Circus Animal Battle Rap (instrumental) [3m19s]

10 Frisson [5m04s]

11 Bicycle Beat [3m50s]

12 Shake That [4m53s]

13 The Crucial [7m23s]

14 Unlucky Bounce [4m19s]

15 Sidekick [5m52s]

16 Church Bus [3m46s]

Description

Abusive fastball rhythms. Gratuitous electroid synth lines. Z-movie backdrops. Tape hiss. Chopped vocal samples. Soundtracks to the high-scores table. One-finger sampler tapping. Lush downtempo breaks. Power pop plunges. You name it, Sings the blues has it. Except there’s not really any blues.

This is Books on Tape’s sophomore CD, & what a treat it is! First, this is 100% Todd Drootin: no collaborators were harmed during the making of this CD. And secondly & most importantly, this CD is the first to effectively capture the feeling & essence of Books on Tape’s notorious live shows.

Whether or not you’ve had the chance to witness the boy wonder of the sampler in your hometown yet, open your ears & there is little doubt that you will enjoy this new CD. It’s new, it’s exciting, it’s intense, & it’s got flair & it’s got bite. In short, this is Books on Tape at its absolute finest. Todd Drootin is in the house, & he’s not about to leave!

Mastered by Louis Dufort. Licensed to Greyday [GDP 009] for the USA.

What the press says…

… de la noirceur de l’electro-dub à la chatoyante mélodie simpliste et efficace…

Éric Henaff, Les choses (France)

… il offre toute l’intensité et l’énergie de la musique punk.

Éric Thériault, Convergence (Québec)

En résumé: très varié, cet album «blues» qui est plein d’énergie… Le tout est dépourvu de «blues» et sonne fait maison! Et en un mot: incontournable!

D EA, Surreal Sound (Belgium)

There are so many good things on this album to recommend that I could literally go on for hours.

Rick , Delusion of Adequacy (USA)

… a master of telling stories without using words…

Michael Ornadet, Logo Magazine (UK)

Todd Drootin é um alquimista dos sons.

Pedro Portela, O dominio dos deuses (Portugal)

Books on Tape

Raised on punk rock and related products, Todd Drootin got turned on to electronic music and hip-hop in the nineties. With Matt Dennebaum, he forms the duo Subverse, whose sole, self-released cassette Nobody Likes You (1998), although a fairly obscure item in itself, got them some well deserved kudos. Unfortunately, the band had to split shortly afterwards as their members moved to opposite coasts: Matt went to New York City, and Todd eventually found his way to Los Angeles. → Full bio

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