THE BOOKS release their third album, 'Lost and Safe'.
Along with The Books' mainstay cello, guitar, mandolin and banjo, which all make appearances in 'Lost and Safe', they also invested in a few new instruments to play with, most notably: a set of tuned plastic drain pipes, a cheap metal filing cabinet with subwoofers installed in it, and a vintage Hohner clavinet, which they salvaged from a Dutch basement and restored to
funkiness, A synaesthetic quality pervades 'Lost and Safe' as it explores new territory within the collage
based production style set forth by it predecessors, It is a song-based album, conceived of as a whole that weaves found voices and original lyrics together with a constantly shifting instrumentation that defies classification.