april 11, 2013 ten years after its release and subsequent appearance on so many soundtracks and commercials, the influential debut album by the synth-pop project of ben gibbard and jimmy tamborello has been reissued. the deluxe set includes remixes and covers by matthew dear, the shins,...
s releases by Tony Joe White and Son House. The new clips are based on artwork created by the Southern California artist Omar “El Oms” Juarez, who created striking images on covers for bothYours, Dreamily,andElectrophonic Chronicand the dizzying graphics for the video for the first album’...
Hackman washes her hands of the original tempo and performs a sparse—but not without some synths and The Shins’ original guitar riff—arrangement that sounds as if it could be off Daughter’s 2013 album,If You Leave. Much like the first two tracks, many of the songs onCoversremove a ha...
The whole album proceeds acoustically, gently, quirkily – as befits a band made of the writer of Hadestown, a former member of The Shins, and The National’s Josh Kaufman. Because the album evokes a mood without settling into a mode – and certainly not a rut – each song emerges as ...
That's the next thing I'm working on, the next Shins album. Pitchfork: Do you have any idea where you're going to take the Shins, musically? Is it going sound different from the last record? JM: I've had these songs for a bit. There's a bit of an R&B influence on som...
Their fifth album, Heartworms, was released in March 2017. Dig Deeper The Best The Shins Albums, Ranked Also ranks #5 on The Best Musical Artists From New Mexico Also ranks #10 on The Best Folk Artists on NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts, Ranked 49 Walk the Moon 417 votes This A...
Lots of humble opinions, sad songs, and covers We Will Become Silhouettes– The Shins Love the Postal Service, but this one’s better Brilliant Disguise– Elvis Costello Not so much a fan of Bruce’s version, but I love the lyrics and EC’s delivery. Ineasilythe most surreal conversation...
We decided to make use of the fact that Kicker has vinyl copy of the Boy Child – Best Of 1967 -1970 compilation album that came out on Fontana in 1990, and focus on the 14 tracks on that. You can find out what we thought of the album by clicking on the image below. You can re...
We decided to make use of the fact that Kicker has vinyl copy of the Boy Child – Best Of 1967 -1970 compilation album that came out on Fontana in 1990, and focus on the 14 tracks on that. You can find out what we thought of the album by clicking on the image below. You can re...
there's no mistaking Port of Morrow as being anything but a Shins album, with Mercer's yearning tenor protracting deep emotion from straightforward sentiments as "It's all so very simple and horribly complex." While nothing here taps into that magical, hushed intimacy of "New Slang," a son...