Apr 27, 2010

Experimental pop duo The Books make their triumphant return with The Way Out on July 20, via Temporary Residence.

“Beautiful People” finds the twosome singing backwards vocals, and then a sleek electro beat takes over. The song’s lyrics mention convex figures, geometric equations, and uhhh…genuflection. Well, music is math after all. Summer tour dates can be found at The Books’ MySpace.

The Books on the track:

“Beautiful People is one of the four ‘sung songs’ on the new record (14 tracks, about 50 minutes in all). In this case, 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, trigonometry, tangrams, which will make up the video portion of the song for the live show.”

(Via P4k.)