would be released through Temporary Residence Limited in July. On April 27 Pitchfork began streaming the track "Beautiful People", which Zammuto described as "a three part christian harmony mixed with a sort of euro-disco-trash beat, an orchestra’s worth of sampled brass and lyrics about the twelfth root of two (my favorite irrational number), trigonometry and tangrams". The album was released on July 20. The Books played the ATP New York 2010 music festival in Monticello, New York, in September 2010 and then toured North American tour with The Black Heart Procession. The band had been chosen by Portishead & ATP to perform at the ATP I'll Be Your Mirror festival that they planned to curate in July 2011 at London's Alexandra Palace. In January 2012, Nick Zammuto announced in an interview via Pitchfork that the Books were splitting up to focus on other projects. On April 3, 2012, Nick Zammuto released Zammuto, under the moniker Zammuto. In 2014 he released another album called Anchor. Paul de Jong released two solo albums; IF and You Fucken Sucker, in 2015 and 2018 respectively. Musical style The Books are commonly cited by critics to be of a genre of their own. Zammuto has described it as collage music. Paul de Jong described it as "the new folk music...[w]e make our own instruments, use our own libraries of sound bites while trying to create something universally human." Although they have said that their influences include Nirvana, David Bowie, Roxy Music as well as new wave and classical music, these do not show prominently in their music, though Zammuto was directly influenced by electronic musicians Boards of Canada and Aphex Twin. The Books' music usually consists of acoustic instrumentation of folk melodies usually played on guitar, cello, banjo and more, combined with a diverse range of samples obtained from cassettes found in thrift stores, which are digitally processed and edited. They also rarely use a drum kit in recordings and performances, instead favouring everyday objects like children's toys and filing cabinets, which were sampled and looped. Some observers contend that their music is aleatoric, but Zammuto has disagreed, saying the music is very tightly controlled. Discography Studio albums Thought for Food (2002) The Lemon of Pink (2003) Lost and Safe (2005) The Way Out (2010) Compilations A Dot In Time. (2012) EP Music for a French Elevator and Other Short Format Oddities by the Books