Book of Bad Breaks

Book of Bad Breaks is the third studio album by American indie rock band Thee More Shallows. It was released on Anticon on April 24, 2007.^[2]

Book of Bad Breaks
Studio album by Thee More Shallows
Released	April 24, 2007 (2007-04-24)[1]
Genre	Indie rock
Length	36:34
Label	Anticon
Thee More Shallows chronology
Monkey vs. Shark (2006) Book of Bad Breaks (2007)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	69/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Cokemachineglow	65/100[4]
Cyclic Defrost	favorable[5]
Pitchfork	6.0/10[6]
The Skinny	[7]
Stylus Magazine	C[8]
XLR8R	favorable[9]

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 69% based on 14 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".^[2]

Marisa Brown of AllMusic gave the album 3.5 stars out of 5, saying: "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."^[3] Dave Kerr of The Skinny gave the album 4 stars out of 5, saying: "Despite the haunting, downtrodden poetry in these lyrics, optimism and vitality shines brightly throughout the Shallows' sound."^[7]

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"D. Shallow"	0:45
2.	"Eagle Rock"	2:57
3.	"Dutch Fist"	3:26
4.	"Night at the Knight School"	3:23
5.	"Int 1"	1:56
6.	"Proud Turkeys"	3:40
7.	"Int 2"	0:46
8.	"Fly Paper"	3:41
9.	"Int 3"	0:27
10.	"Oh Yes, Another Mother"	3:10
11.	"White Mask"	6:40
12.	"Chrome Caps"	3:55
13.	"Mo Deeper"	1:48