Search - Thee More Shallows :: Book of Bad Breaks

Oh wow.

Eon Fontes May | Northampton, MA USA | 05/29/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"i waited and waited for this album and it delivered. "book of bad breaks" is pretty much the culmination of everything that TMS have been hinting at for the past few years- it's full of the same fuzzed-out loops, synths, and strings, the same odd but compelling lyrical tales... but they tightened it up. the songs are more succinct, even catchier, and the whole thing flows like an album should. established fans should love this, and anyone curious about TMS should pick this up immediately. this is seriously one of the best albums i have heard in a long, long time."

Best Album to come out in the last three years

J. Murphy | 01/25/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Came across this album a couple years ago while looking through the recent Anticon releases. Clicked over to myspace, and I was sonically transported. Like OK Computer in 97 or Grandaddy's Sophtware Slump in 2000 or Thought for Food by The Books in 02 the music just froze me in place and took me over.



Drove right to the store after work, bought it and couldn't stop listening to it for a week straight. Actually, more like a month. It is hard to believe the album is only 37min long. It is extremely deep musically (listening to it again as I type this review I am still discovering little sounds I hadn't heard before).



This is an album you obsess over. If you want to hear one song, you will end up re-listening to the whole thing. I think what makes it distinctive from a lot of other really great experimental electro-rock/pop is the singing and lyrics. Kesler's songwriting is as good, his voice as moving, as any of the greats. Their other albums demonstrate this (they are all quite good) but this one is the perfect manifestation of the band's unique sound. They inspire lyricism in a very classical sense, like one might describe Beethoven.



Buy it, put on some headphones, and be truly still for 37 minutes. Let TMS inhabit you."