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    Today's Top Tune

    The Books: Free Translator

    The duo known as The Books create their own musical language with a distinctive sound that is hard to capture, but thoroughly engaging. Their songs are creatively complex and linguistically obsessive yet flow with unrelenting ease. Today's Top Tune is "Free Translator," from their CD The Way Out.

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    By Ariana Morgenstern • Sep 10, 2010 • 1 min read

    The duo known as

    The Books create their own musical language with a distinctive sound that is hard to capture, but thoroughly engaging. Their songs are creatively complex and linguistically obsessive yet flow with unrelenting ease. Today's Top Tune is "

    Free Translator," from their CD

    The Way Out.

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