San Francisco trio Thee More Shallows has been visible on the low-fi shoe-gaze scene prior to its 2005 breakthrough album, More Deep Cuts. Vocalist Dee Kesler is the locus of the band's latest project. Its music seems to emulate his sullen confessions and admonitions.
"Night at the Knight School" embodies percussive responses and gravelly keyboard melodies. Thee More Shallows provides a post-rock narrative landscape that sounds derivative at times. But it maintains a pop sensibility as difficult to resist as it is to categorize.
The band establishes a fuller-sounding and harder-rocking aesthetic on "Fly Paper" but still relies on anomalous noise and analog keyboard undertones to fully realize its sound. The Book of Bad Breaks makes good.
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