Doctors Are Testing Their Patients

GENRE: CLASSIC CLATTER. VERDICT: ROCKTIME DREAMLAND. There's nothing particularly cutting-edge about Thick As Thieves, and that's just the way it should be. The four talented bandmates have perfected a clattering steamroller of a CD, from the opener "First News From the Zephyr" to the well-composed "Mars Viglia" through to cinematic closer "There Were Sparrows," Their second full-length release carefully walks the line between making airtight grooves and falling apart completely. The guys are a literal bunch, too, with themes that speak beyond the regular-joe rock of booze, sex and more booze. True Believers ... makes us so. "
Weekly Dig



"For every moment of hushed beauty here, like the gently plucked acoustics and heavy-hearted piano balladry of "Chemical Division," there's a counterbalancing blast of snarling, vampy rocking, countrified twang, or moody, electronic ambience. It's an impressively diverse sonic palate for the young Cambridge band, whose songs break and crest on waves of sudden momentum shifts. "Mars Vigila" is the highlight: a rhythmically complex burst of chiming, ethereal elegy and melting guitar delay broken up by breast-beating, shouted catharsis. Through it all they maintain a surprising sense of melodic focus for a group stitching so many ideas into such a tightly woven whole."
Boston Magazine
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This Post Is Testing My Patience


Volume 1: We Planted Driftwood And Nothing Changed: Next to the ocean things seemed better: clearer skies and faster cars and late night parties. Later on, it seemed almost surreal that it had even happened at all.

Volume 2: True Believers In The Long Walk Home: There was a great deal of leaving and wandering and in the fall, there was dust on the tree trunks next to the main road. They left on the first available ticket.

Volume 3: RX EP: Being so far away from the soil of their homeland was difficult to say the least. After the bars and cafes and weekend trips to the coast, there was very little to cling on to. But there was always another round of drinks with friends of friends at some new place where someone knew someone and the people were talkative. This could be a good show.

THICK AS THIEVES is a band, writing collective, and musical cult.

Aaron Benson plays guitar, bass, and sings
Mike Cotter plays drums and sings
Kellen Kleinfelter plays bass, guitar, and sings
Tyler Littwin plays guitar, keys, and sings


Three quarters of the band grew up in the midwest, on wide expanses of cornfields or in open fields next to the frozen lake. They migrated to an East Coast city where educated collegiate drunks and musical bohemians crowded onto T cars and into dark bars. During a long night in 2004, they met a Mass native who had also come from a small town in a big valley. The four wrote music and collected ideas and assembled songs in deep basements and quiet bedrooms. Time slipped by and there were two full-length albums out: they were full of noise and beauty and sharp words and strange mornings. It sounded like rock and roll music.

Thick As Thieves' third release is the four song RX EP which was written during the fall and winter of 2008.
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Fresh Start

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