Thee More Shallows are the best SF band going...

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...now that Deerhoof has kinda dropped the ball. I saw them first several years ago and they wiped the stage with Xiu Xiu, the headliner, at BotH, and they've been equally as fantastic everywhere I've caught 'em since then. New album due late Apr, and the one track I've heard is already classic. You don't need 50 million cymbals when you've got actual songs, see.

― libcrypt, Monday, 19 March 2007 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

they're great and dee is a really nice guy. they're not anything like deerhoof so that's not a very good comparison to make. I'm surprised they signed to anticon but I think they're a cool band for that label to put out since they're absolutely unlike anything else on there.

― akm, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

deerhoof dropped the ball?

― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

I bought the second album on the recommendation of a friend, but apparently I fucked up and was supposed to get the first one instead. But I liked it just fine, and the new album sounds good (plus I am a total anticon stan).

― bernard snowy, Monday, 19 March 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Fishing is good, but Cuts is miles better, so I'd reverse that recommendation.

I don't mean to talk shit about Deerhoof, but Friend Opportunity is kind of a chore to listen to. There's no real direct comparison between TMS and Deerhoof other than the fact that Deerhoof were my fave SF band until this year. What jazz guy clamed that there are only two types of music, "good" and "bad"? That's what I think.

― libcrypt, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 01:31 (nineteen years ago)

i'm really enjoying The Mall.

― Cameron Octigan, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

They are quite easily the hottest SF indie rock band since last month's scintillating Pitchfork darlings dropped the ball.

― Steve Shasta, Tuesday, 20 March 2007 02:50 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

God I love these guys. BoBB is more rock than the previous stuff, but there's also a J&MC-like layer of noise on a lotta the songs. Definitely classic. I'm still deciding how it measures up to the previous releases, though.

― libcrypt, Friday, 8 June 2007 23:30 (eighteen years ago)

More Deep Cuts is terrific. I find the latest a bit disappointing after More Deep Cuts, but still worthwhile.

― professor ganson, Sunday, 10 June 2007 03:54 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

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― Surfjan Stevens (libcrypt), Monday, 26 January 2009 23:47 (seventeen years ago)

really really like these guys

― CLAPSOCK (John Justen), Monday, 26 January 2009 23:48 (seventeen years ago)

<3 <3 <3 yes

― Surfjan Stevens (libcrypt), Monday, 26 January 2009 23:49 (seventeen years ago)

they should have released their breakthrough album by now, but the last one wasnt so good.
maybe the next will get bigger attention.(and then most of the old fans will hate them)

― Zeno, Monday, 26 January 2009 23:56 (seventeen years ago)

I'm sorry to have to correct you, but BoBB is very, very excellent. I'm quite happy with how things are going, except they could use to release more albums.

― Surfjan Stevens (libcrypt), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 00:00 (seventeen years ago)

you cant excpect everyone to like Bobby.

― Zeno, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 00:04 (seventeen years ago)

hey I know these guys! Kessler seems to go through a lot of bandmembers.

― Courtney Love's Jew Loan Officer (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 00:04 (seventeen years ago)

four months pass...

― cutty, Saturday, 6 June 2009 23:04 (sixteen years ago)

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