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Advance Music: The Shins Make Us Heartbroken and Happy

Today a special package arrived in our offices. SubPop sent over a fat envelope filled with copies of the new Shins record, Wincing the Night Away. Within fifteen minutes of their arrival, the sounds of various tracks competing for audio space were blaring out of multiple editors’ stereos like a giant indie-rock performance-art project. Yes, yes, we just got our hands on this album today, but we’re already madly in love.

Thanks to the ubiquitous Garden State soundtrack, the Shins have made songs like “Caring Is Creepy” and “New Slang” the stuff of car commercials and soccer-mom tape decks. But on the new joint, they’ve grown up and out of their pretty psychedelic Sixties pop and, you know, My Bloody Valentine referencing. In a good way. the Shins are just more experimental and more confident here, pairing strings, New Wave synths and what the band claims is a “hip-hop beat” with the soaring vocals and perfect, transcendent lyrics we’ve come to expect from these quirky power-pop-makers.

We’re going to have a new favorite song tomorrow, but for now we’re getting behind the elegiac “Turn On Me,” which opens like the Cramps covering the Supremes and evolves into this gorgeous, lilting serenade to heartbreak. It also features the cutest line in a sad, sad song that we’ve ever heard: “You had to know I was fond of you, fond of y o u.” Oh boys, fondness doesn’t even begin to describe it.

i'm stoked!

You have GOT to get your hands on this for us ASAP, Dalen!!!

soon i'm sure. i'm on the hunt, trust.

i'll bet timis will have it first.

what are the odds

timis 2:1
dalen 3:1

I'm putting money on katie.

But I doubt she'll share.

i hope so, then i can stop searching.

alright dude, how are we gonna bribe Katie into giving it to us?

I just read a full thing on this in Filter and it sounded really good. I'm antsy.

Gott dammity I wannit.


WANNIT.



Kaaaaatie....

I think I just had a small palpitation.

Katie and Dri's cushy music industry gigs provide them early access to this stuff, but leaking to us would result in them losing said cush gigs, so don't even put them in the awkward position of having to tell us no. Just understand and respect their situations, mmm'k?

Hmm...so Filter and Rolling Stone are getting all up in a frenzy about this? I think this may actually make me less excited.

I know this makes me sound like a total snob, but since when did either of these publications not like something that was overly hyped?

SHINS! SHINS! SHINS!

dude are you being serious?

Who cares if something is hyped or not? It has absolutley no bearing on the quality of an album. If hype somehow impacts the way you ingest music then you should do yourself a favor and just not read the articles or read the messageboard chatter. I know the noise can be deafening around the release of some records, but seriously we should have enough faith in our own opinions and critical thinking to not be so easily swayed by popular sentiments, whichever way they may be blowing.

I for one am eager to hear the record. That band hasn't let me down so far and I have no reason to expect they will now.

np: Vetiver- i never get sick of this album.

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This makes me excited to hear something I wasn't to excited about. I didn't think their sophmore effort was all that great.

i'm anxious to hear this, but i'm not necessarily expecting it to top either of their first two albums. maybe i'll be pleasantly surprised. at least i'm trying to set myself up to not be tremendously disappointed.

It depends on how much ridicule it will subject me to...

I didn't mean it like that, I just meant that I don't take Filter and Rolling Stone to be my most reliable sources, so I'm still waiting to reserve judgment until I hear it myself.

FT's 100% right. Notwithstanding the possibility that copies will be watermarked and traced back to them, Katie and Dri hold positions of trust vis-a-vis artists & their advances that most of us don't, making it more difficult to ethically justify handing out copies willy nilly to win the approval of Internet freeloaders.

i can assure you that both Timis and I would never ask Katie or Dri for any releases from the labels they are affiliated with. to think that we would is retarded.

you guys need some schooling in sarcasm.