The Books

Celebrate Brooklyn!

Prospect Park Bandshell

7 p.m.
Free
All Ages
Rain or Shine

With their dizzying folktronica—a mix of innovative instrumentation and songwriting with obscure found sound and speech samples—and perfectly calibrated, hallucinatory quick-cut video collages, the Books, says Pitchfork, “remain more or less a genre of one. …the flotsam and jetsam of American culture aren’t a cheap joke to the Books, but a source of endless discovery and joy.” Junip, the band that predates Swedish-Argentine singer José González’s solo stardom, conjures an expansive take on his songs in which, as Rolling Stone describes it, “González’s classical guitar and weightless tenor float over soul jazz, Afrobeat, Ethiopian funk and krautrock.” The evening will begin with the “haunting, ethereal, and beautifully melodic” (Paper Magazine) bedroom pop of in-demand pianist and composer Thomas Bartlett’s outfit Doveman. Sponsored locally by Aguayo Realty Group.