the books - smells like content (via p3pto)
When I saw the Books a few years ago, they played this song, I think with the same video in the background. I think it’s ridiculously witty. Ya know, generally, they make some aleatoric music where they decontextualize found sound and put it back together in a different form with music. Here they take the spoken word apart, breaking meaning off from sound, and then putting the words back together with new meaning. I sat here for a few seconds trying to make sense of the song’s use of the word “disparity”, thinking, is “despair-ity” an actual word? It’s not the way the video spells it out, but the way the song breaks down the word, in the context of the song’s sort-of “ambiance”, I lost track.
