Release Date: Apr 24, 2007
Genre(s): Indie, Rock
Record label: Anticon
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Recently signed to Anticon, San Francisco's Thee More Shallows take a slightly more dynamic, drum-filled approach to their third record, Book of Bad Breaks. The same processed guitars and layered keyboards are still here, but the album is less atmospheric music than quirky indie rock. There's a fair amount of experimentalism, with plenty of synthesized and effected sounds, songs breaking in and out of themselves from time to time, intermissions that lead into full pieces which then fade halfway through and become something else before returning to what they were originally.