The Shins
Every figure of beauty usually has at least one slightly ugly aspect to it, so it’s best to think of ‘Sea Legs’ as the musical equivalent of Angelina Jolie’s bumhole. Undisputedly, when taken as part of The Shins’ incredible ‘Wincing...
The Shins
There’s a surefire way of telling where a band is from – if it sounds quintessentially English and versed in the idiosyncracies of XTC, Squeeze, Psychedelic Furs and Orange Juice, then you know that they are from America. And so it is with...
The Shins
The year’s most unlikely chart-botherers continue the most jangly bid for world domination ever. If you’ve already fallen under the band’s spell, you’ll know that here is another in their seemingly endless batch of catchy and lyrically...
Shockwaves NME Awards Show: The Shins, London...
So America’s chart-bothering indie darlings finally bring their new album ‘Wincing The Night Away‘ to the UK, and are as predictably brilliant as always. In front of an absolutely rammed Astoria, The Shins also knock out a cover of The...
The Shins: Phantom Limb
They tell me that this is Phill Jupitus’ Record Of The Week on a show he does on something called BBC 6Music, which sounds like a made-up radio station to me. Regardless, this is a shimmery, summery delight, shot through with a veritable...
The Shins: Wincing The Night Away
The Shins’ singer and songwriter James Mercer recently confessed that this record’s rather strange title was down to the fact that he’d been struggling to sleep at night, so aware was he of the feverish anticipation around the album. No...
The Shins : Fighting In A Scak
Firstly, a gripe. As band names go, The Whateverpluralnounhasn'tbeentakenyets may sound more like a small Welsh mining hamlet, but it's certainly a large fucking improvement on The Shins, the kind of name designated to perennial support bands in...
