| Product Summary | | Label: Sub Pop | | UPC: 00098787055023 | | Release Date: 6/19/2001 | | Buy.com Sku: 60484561 | | Item#: MNF2MY | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 6. New Slang ~ The Shins |  | | 7. Celibate Life, The ~ The Shins | | | 8. Girl On The Wing ~ The Shins | | | 9. Your Algebra ~ The Shins | | | 10. Pressed In A Book ~ The Shins | | | 11. Past And Pending, The ~ The Shins | |
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| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | This is an Enhanced audio CD, which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | The Shins: Marty Crandall, Neal Langford, James Mercer, Jesse Sandoval. | | Additional personnel includes: Melanie Crandall (cello); Neils Galloway (French horn); David Hernandez (bass). | | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | The Shins appeared out of the middle of New Mexico as if by magic, though they had been around for a while under several other names on several different labels. In a landscape of boy bands, pre-teen chanteuses, and nu metal, the literate, '60s-influenced jangle of the Shins' debut seems a bizarre anomaly. This is indie rock that channels Love and Creation rather than the Ramones and Sex Pistols. | | Standouts include "One by One All Day," with its Space Invader intro, rattling drums, and retro keyboard solo, the gentle "Weird Divide," which highlights James Mercer's Brian Wilson-esque voice, and "Your Algebra," with its echoing vocals and guitar arpeggios. Arguably, the album's best track is "New Slang," which begins with the lines "Gold teeth and a curse for this town are all in my mouth/Only I don't know how they got out." For listeners with a computer, the disc also contains a charming if very low-fi video for "New Slang." |
| | Artist Overview | | In the late 1990s, the Albuquerque indie-rock band Flake Music morphed into the Shins, led by vocalist-guitarist James Mercer. Upon the release of 2001's OH, INVERTED WORLD, the Shins garnered a landslide of critical acclaim with their amiable, 1960s-influenced power-pop. Subsequent touring further raised the group's profile, and their eagerly awaited sophomore album, CHUTES TOO NARROW, revealed another set of clever and quirky pop-rock ditties. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 06/19/2001 | | Original Release Date : 2001 | | Catalog ID : 550 | | Label : Sub Pop Records (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00098787055023 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (8/16/01, p.105)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Their pop songs jangle without being too sunny....These 11 songs whiz by in a gorgeous blur, over far too soon."Q (May 2002, pp.119-121)
- 3 out of 5 stars - "...The Shins fall into the folk category, focusing on hazy Beach Boys pop and swooning Simon & Garfunkel harmonies..." CMJ (8/01, p.89)
- "...Palpable, '60s-influenced jangle pop....one of the most consistently enjoyable takes on Brian Wilson..." Mojo (Publisher)
(1/02, p.68)
- Ranked #14 in Mojo's "Best [40] Albums of 2001". Mojo (Publisher)
(9/01, p.99)
- "...[Their] lovely jangly appeal is all their own..." NME (Magazine)
(5/18/02, p.35)
- 8 out of 10 - "...Evokes the shimmering coastlines and baked desertscapes of California with a vivid beauty seldom glimpsed since The Beach Boys hung up their surfboards..." |
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