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Dear Friends!
Please come out and support this amazing band at the Vaudeville Mews tonight!
DSWaltzing will be opening for them and ready to have a fun time with all of you!
We really want people check out Thee More Shallows, because they are great, and have
a brand new record out on Anticon that you all will love!
The show info is below, I really hope to see you out! Check out the myspace pages for some tunes!
-a
THEE MORE SHALLOWS
http://www.myspace.com/theemoreshallows
On , the full-length follow-up to 2005’s well-loved LP, Thee More Shallows sharpen the edges of their precisely-arranged, orchestral post-pop. Last time, the blessing of a new studio came with a curse: unlimited time and unlimited tracks to record on, causing them to work and rework songs, more like novelists than musicians. This time, TMS set out with the mantra of first thought/best thought. And in a studio full of instruments, they chose to limit their palette, beginning the record’s construction with little more than a $50 Casio keyboard, Dee's acoustic guitar, and Chavo and Jason's drums. As things got moving, they grew more complicated (violin mini-fugues were composed; Anticon's Odd Nosdam brought his drum breaks; drones and echoes crept in) but throughout, the band stayed true to its original intent.
The result is an album moving fast and fluidly between rich, icy atmospherics and angular, galloping pop songs, never slowing its pace. “Eagle Rock” braces a fuzzy keyboard riff with a jaw-dropping drum beat, its rapid-fire verses evolving into a stately, expansive chorus. Standout "The Dutch Fist" begins like dirty Modest Mouse cut through with the swagger of Why?, then apes Bowie with the hyped-up bounce of a new indie anthem. "Int 2" becomes “Proud Turkeys” on a vertiginous shift from airy strings to crude distortion, then goes out on a barrage of krautrock-driven drums and pretty falsetto, while “The White Mask” sets out as deliberately as a Mt. Eerie epic and arrives at a chorus as memorable as it is frightening. And all along, Dee’s mellifluous, slightly twanged observations offer much to sing along with and ponder. So yes, maybe is another novel, but this time TMS has written a thriller. Simply put, it's a damn fine record from a band at the height of its powers.
DEEP SLEEP WALTZING
http://www.myspace.com/dswaltzing
deep sleep waltzing: four blood covered baby boys picking first names out of a hat filled with
only three. they travel from cloud to cloud by way of a magical toy boat
observing future and past dream sequences and writing the soundtracks to
them.
over the years the sounds have been exposed to a lot of wear and tear.
things have come apart and been taped back together so many times that it's
hard to tell what originally belonged where.
the boys have grown longer limbs and are now beginning to share the broken
soundtracks with those they love. brandon, adam, brandon, and jared would
like to thank you for caring. and to quote their 1979 cross-stitch
championship runners-up speech, "none of this would be possible were it not
for the man behind the scenes, mr. d.s. waltzing.
Please come out and support this amazing band at the Vaudeville Mews tonight!
DSWaltzing will be opening for them and ready to have a fun time with all of you!
We really want people check out Thee More Shallows, because they are great, and have
a brand new record out on Anticon that you all will love!
The show info is below, I really hope to see you out! Check out the myspace pages for some tunes!
-a
THEE MORE SHALLOWS
http://www.myspace.com/theemoreshallows
On , the full-length follow-up to 2005’s well-loved LP, Thee More Shallows sharpen the edges of their precisely-arranged, orchestral post-pop. Last time, the blessing of a new studio came with a curse: unlimited time and unlimited tracks to record on, causing them to work and rework songs, more like novelists than musicians. This time, TMS set out with the mantra of first thought/best thought. And in a studio full of instruments, they chose to limit their palette, beginning the record’s construction with little more than a $50 Casio keyboard, Dee's acoustic guitar, and Chavo and Jason's drums. As things got moving, they grew more complicated (violin mini-fugues were composed; Anticon's Odd Nosdam brought his drum breaks; drones and echoes crept in) but throughout, the band stayed true to its original intent.
The result is an album moving fast and fluidly between rich, icy atmospherics and angular, galloping pop songs, never slowing its pace. “Eagle Rock” braces a fuzzy keyboard riff with a jaw-dropping drum beat, its rapid-fire verses evolving into a stately, expansive chorus. Standout "The Dutch Fist" begins like dirty Modest Mouse cut through with the swagger of Why?, then apes Bowie with the hyped-up bounce of a new indie anthem. "Int 2" becomes “Proud Turkeys” on a vertiginous shift from airy strings to crude distortion, then goes out on a barrage of krautrock-driven drums and pretty falsetto, while “The White Mask” sets out as deliberately as a Mt. Eerie epic and arrives at a chorus as memorable as it is frightening. And all along, Dee’s mellifluous, slightly twanged observations offer much to sing along with and ponder. So yes, maybe is another novel, but this time TMS has written a thriller. Simply put, it's a damn fine record from a band at the height of its powers.
DEEP SLEEP WALTZING
http://www.myspace.com/dswaltzing
deep sleep waltzing: four blood covered baby boys picking first names out of a hat filled with
only three. they travel from cloud to cloud by way of a magical toy boat
observing future and past dream sequences and writing the soundtracks to
them.
over the years the sounds have been exposed to a lot of wear and tear.
things have come apart and been taped back together so many times that it's
hard to tell what originally belonged where.
the boys have grown longer limbs and are now beginning to share the broken
soundtracks with those they love. brandon, adam, brandon, and jared would
like to thank you for caring. and to quote their 1979 cross-stitch
championship runners-up speech, "none of this would be possible were it not
for the man behind the scenes, mr. d.s. waltzing.