Book Tracks: Albums to listen to while you read books... Get it? Book Tracks. Fuck you.

1. The Road by Cormac McCarthy
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F# A# (Infinity) by Godspeed You Black Emperor!

Post-apocalypse book meets the most post-apocalyptic post-rock poster boys of rock-posts. Reading this bitch with that album was like drifting in a river of ashes wearing kamikaze goggles and a rain coat made out of a trash bag. It's desperate times out there and this Book Track will make sure you're first in line to eat a baby when the time comes.

2. (Any) Tom Waits
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(Any) Charles Bukowski

This is an easy one. Man, if you haven't mixed these two then you haven't cried yourself to sleep in your bathtub. You know why I'm so depressed - it's because I fucked everything up. But these guys have stories that remind me that I need to really focus if I want to hit rock bottom. Horse Tracks, fist fights with your dad, women of ill-repute... See? self-destruction can be productive. This isn't some frat-boy-kegger-howdy-doody shit. You got demons. You're a bad man. Do something about it. Drink. Drink. Drink. Read.

Book Tracks.




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