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First I fell for Beck's guitarist/dinner table percussionist Matt Mahaffey and became obsessed with his bands sElf and Wired All Wrong. It's been a good ride so far. I've slowly been collecting every single sElf record and learning more about the recordings, the subculture of his fans, etc.

Just a half hour ago or so my buddy Jamo introduced me to Deep Sea Diver, which is the product of ANOTHER musician who has played guitar for Beck on tour: Jessica Dobson. I remember thinking to myself when I caught Beck at United Palace Theater for the Modern Guilt tour that it was a shame that Matt wasn't playing but kinda neat that they had this girl playing guitar and she was REALLY good! I mean, you sort of have to be good to play for Beck. The man is talented but PICKY!

Anyways, So Deep Sea Diver just released an EP recently called New Caves. You can order a physical copy here if Amazon DRM-free MP3s aren't your thing. 5 out of the 6 songs on the EP are up on the Deep Sea Diver MySpace. Definitely going to be a record that I will be rocking a lot this summer. My favorite song so far is definitely "Hangin' On".

Here's a video of "Confidence", complete with toy owl backup signer:

DEEP SEA DIVER - *CONFIDENCE* from anchortapes on Vimeo

So friends, do we like?