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 tofunkiness. A synaesthetic quality pervades 'Lost and Safe' as it explores new territory within the collagebased 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.