Previously only available in the A Dot in Time box set, The Books' Music for French Elevator and Other Rarities is being released in a special edition, stand-alone double LP.
The 45 track collection includes b-sides (including their cover of Nick Drake's "Cello Song"), soundtracks, and lots of unreleased instrumental tracks.
Former books "frontman" Nick Zammuto has uploaded his five favorite tracks from the album to Soundcloud. Take a listen to "Egaberte," "Happy Lawyers," "Hericlitus," "Lawyer Lullaby," and "Epilogue" below.
Zammuto also added, in an email to his Zammuto mailing list, "I'm so terribly sorry 'The Books' had to end. I'm enjoying working on music more than ever with the new band, but my days working on 'The Books' were an incredible time for me. Thank you all for listening, and for all your amazing support through the years."
The album will be released on October 15 through Temporary Residence Limited and is limited 2,000 copies with the first 300 printed on "beautiful transparent splatter blue vinyl."
Track List:
TRACK LIST:
1. Fralite
2. Egaberte
3. Liternite
4. It's Musiiiiic!
5. The Joy of Nature
6. Meditation Outtakes
7. A Long Villainous Sequence
8. Millions of Millions
9. Of the Word God
10. Ghost Train Digest
11. You'll Never Be Alone
12. 'Ah..., I See'
13. Three Day Night
14. Classy Penguin
15. 8 Frame
16. Smack My Bishop
17. Biospheric Quiet
18. Happy Lawyers
19. Hericlitus
20. John's Arp
21. Foreign Country and Western
22. Dustbowl
23. Biospheric Doubletime
24. Drowned But Survived
25. Pickup Dark
26. Hermetic
27. Circle of Fifths Loop
28. Past Comes Welling Up
29. Electro Lawyers
30. Mars, OK
31. Biospheric Dark
32. Flythrough
33. Running Down
34. 8 Tons of Oxygen
35. 10,000 Crows
36. John's Epiphany
37. Lawyer Lullaby
38. Hokie Ranch
39. 2over3 Lawyers
40. Glass Glass
41. Biospheric Zither
42. Found Frozen Corndog
43. Cello Song Feat. Jose Gonzales
44. Epilogue
45. Pig