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Shim-plify your Saturday

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Shim photo courtesy of The Wig Fits All Heads

Who: Shim, Slender Means, Debonair
Where: The Tractor Tavern
When: 9 p.m. Saturday
Why: Feel Like a King CD release
What: Arena indie rock

I've been listening to an advanced copy of Shim's second album Feel Like a King for a month. It's a burned copy, just the name of the band and the title in black marker on it.
And I love it.
Really. It has that local indie feel to the lyrics, but is sonically appropriate for an arena. It's loud but I can hear every word. They sing about beer drinking, hard loving, walking down burning highways, and zombie girls at the mall. it is not what I expected.
If anything, Shim sound like a more mature Fall of Troy with all the angst and volume but a better vocabulary. They have a song called "Epistomologee" for cryin' out loud.
If you're lucky, you've heard "The Highway" on KEXP. If so, you know what I'm talking about. If you haven't, best just go to the show on Saturday.

You lucky Seattle people. I have to wait until LATE MARCH to see Shim in Spokane. Until then, I have my CD with no track titles to keep me company.
Further motivation:
SHIM Live @ The Chicken Shack 4-22-07

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