Blog > Title: The Books - Cold Freezing Night
As much as I expected to enjoy The Books‘ show at the ICA on Friday night, an avant garde performance at a museum sounds somehow a little more academic than fun. It’s just like those crazy Books to defy expectations, though.
Each song was accompanied by a video montage projected behind the band, many of which were funny both in and out of context. The footage incited audible laughter at several points in their hour-long set and was pulled from a wide variety of sources, ranging from ’90s commercials, to home videos, to self-help videos, to nature documentaries.
In addition to previously-released favorites like “Take Time” and “Smells like Content”, The Books played a bunch of new stuff as well. Here’s a fun new song that I can only assume is called “Cold Freezing Night”, which features samples of kids saying some fairly disturbing things. The voice samples were recorded on Talkboy cassette recorders in the ’90s. Do you remember those?
Yeah, me too.
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