"With Friends Like These is Matt Shaw, Tyler Coffey, Brian Pake from Spook the Horse, and drummer Justin Cronk from Vendetta Red. They make real deal, volume enhanced rock. Cronk is super tight, and the three-tiered vocals of Shaw, Coffey, and Pake spread the stage and the room with an intensely toned caterwaul. Veiled in their strain, the words search then find, “We made it home to our beds / We’re dead and gone for good.” The band holes up in their Fremont bunker studio called Toy Box to record. They’re constantly laying down new material and building their sound. Two guitars bound, Fugazi born, and carving out land mass. With Friends Like These making music like this, you hear no space wasted." Trent Moorman @ the Stranger
"melodic-yet-intense post-punk that’s reminiscent of Jawbreaker, Jawbox, and Braid (i.e., the good emo). I caught one of the trio’s first gigs, an opening set at the Crocodile several months back; they were exceptionally tight, powerful, and anthemic, heavy with angular chord work and bulging neck veins." Michael Alan Goldberg @ Seattle Weekly
"WFLT's "Jawbreaker, Fugazi, and Cursive" influenced tunes make it obvious the trio are passionate about rocking the fuck out. In his solo project, rarely did Shaw ever utter a frustrated word, but in this new collaboration, dude is pissed, screaming up and down and all over the place." Megan Seling @ the Stranger
i still can't believe i swallowed my fucking temp. tooth last night- and from laughing too hard of all things!! jesus...
incase there was ever any doubt, i am by far the coolest person you know.
anyway, who do i have to harass in order to retrieve my precious belongings (coat, scarf, debit card) from, that i so absent-mindedly abandoned in an attempt to regurgitate my tooth?
Its been goin alright, im still up in bellingham so its hard to make new songs, but were still playin shows in seattle quite a bit. let me know when you guys have an all ages show comin up
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Dang! I like the new stuff shaw keep it up..if im in town on the 17th ill definetly come check it out. Let me know if your still planin on recording at bob langs studio..
