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$4.89The Story
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To play music for a long time, you have to surprise the people that love youâwhile also surprising yourself. Recorded in singer/guitarist James Mercerâs basement studio, Phil Ekâs Seattle digs, and in Oregon City with veteran producer Joe Chiccarelli (Beck, U2), Wincing the Night Away is The Shinsâ third full-length album. Itâs also the sound of a band growing up and out. Mercerâs infectious, indelible melodic style is still at the core, and unfaltering. But anything can happen around itâand in this case, it does. While the vocals channel the spirit of Morrissey, âSea Legsâ pairs a loping hip-hop beat with lush melody and searing guitars.
Elsewhere the band toys with tweaked-out, liquid piano steeped in kaleidoscopic strings (âRed Rabbitâ); fractured synth samples (âSpilt Needlesâ); gauzy, arpeggiated keyboards cloaking thunderous anthems (âSleeping Lessonsâ); and, taking cues from early Jesus and Mary Chain albums, sweeping, fuzz-toned epics (âPhantom Limbâ). Finally, âTurn on Me,â âGirl Sailorâ and âAustraliaâ are the lilting, thrilling, rollicking, rock-solid pop songs weâve all come to covet from The Shins. Consider yourself surprised.
Tracklist:
- 1. Sleeping Lessons
- 2. Australia
- 3. Pam Berry
- 4. Phantom Limb
- 5. Sea Legs
- 6. Red Rabbits
- 7. Turn on Me
- 8. Black Wave
- 9. Spilt Needles
- 10. Girl Sailor
- 11. A Comet Appears
Description
CONDITION: NEW
To play music for a long time, you have to surprise the people that love youâwhile also surprising yourself. Recorded in singer/guitarist James Mercerâs basement studio, Phil Ekâs Seattle digs, and in Oregon City with veteran producer Joe Chiccarelli (Beck, U2), Wincing the Night Away is The Shinsâ third full-length album. Itâs also the sound of a band growing up and out. Mercerâs infectious, indelible melodic style is still at the core, and unfaltering. But anything can happen around itâand in this case, it does. While the vocals channel the spirit of Morrissey, âSea Legsâ pairs a loping hip-hop beat with lush melody and searing guitars.
Elsewhere the band toys with tweaked-out, liquid piano steeped in kaleidoscopic strings (âRed Rabbitâ); fractured synth samples (âSpilt Needlesâ); gauzy, arpeggiated keyboards cloaking thunderous anthems (âSleeping Lessonsâ); and, taking cues from early Jesus and Mary Chain albums, sweeping, fuzz-toned epics (âPhantom Limbâ). Finally, âTurn on Me,â âGirl Sailorâ and âAustraliaâ are the lilting, thrilling, rollicking, rock-solid pop songs weâve all come to covet from The Shins. Consider yourself surprised.
Tracklist:
- 1. Sleeping Lessons
- 2. Australia
- 3. Pam Berry
- 4. Phantom Limb
- 5. Sea Legs
- 6. Red Rabbits
- 7. Turn on Me
- 8. Black Wave
- 9. Spilt Needles
- 10. Girl Sailor
- 11. A Comet Appears













