THE BOOKS
THOUGHT FOR FOOD
TOM20 | released: 03/06/2002 | LP
via Anost (Europe) via SCD (USA) 
01 Enjoy your worries, you may never have them again02 Read Eat Sleep03 All Bad Ends All04 Contempt05 All Our Base Are Belong To Them06 Thankyoubranch07 Motherless Bastard08 Mikeybass09 Excess Straussess10 Getting The Done Job11 A Dead Fish Gains The Power Of Observation12 DeafkidsVirtual Indie-Rock?
Tom & Jerry haunted by the ghosts of postrock?
Post-laptop glitch and Clicks&Cuts?
An attempt to post-everything or simply another candidate for the consense album 2002?
"Thought For Food" explores the limits of instrumental trickery on top of mindful sample database management. Controversial, equivocal and political, "The Books" are building bridges and leaving geographical obstructions in music behind. They are obsessed with their respective autobiography of sound and create a work rich in reference from TV Shows to vintage newscast and redneck evangelists to hippiegurus. The result is energetic, idealistic, feet whipping, unsettling and disturbing at times...but always guarding a delicate instrumental flow against the rigidness of digital sterility.
"This modest and unusual album stands on its own as a quiet triumph - one unlike anything I've ever heard before" Mark Richard-San, Pitchfork Media (USA - 7/2002)