TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Informal
Stereophile February 2007 Recording of the Month. Four stars for performance and sonics.
Their third album is the sound of a band growing up and out. James Mercer's infectious, indelible melodic style is still at the core, but on various songs he also channels a Morrissey vibe, pairs a hip-hop beat with lush melodic lines and searing guitars, toys with tweaked-out piano steeped in psychedelic strings, utilizes fractured synth samples, adds gauzy, arpeggiated keyboards that cloak thunderous anthems, and even takes cues from early Jesus And Mary Chain sweeping, fuzz-toned epics. The album also contains the lilting, exhilarating, rollicking, rock-solid pop songs we've all come to covet from The Shins.
"Three albums on, it's impressive how much momentum this quartet has built, how much they still have to say musically, and in how many ingenious and enticing ways they've learned to speak." - Robert Baird, Stereophile Magazine, February 2007
Features:
Includes coupon for free download of entire album
Selections:
1.Sleeping Lessons
2.Australia
3.Pam Berry
4.Phantom Limb
5.Sealegs
6.Red Rabbits
7.Turn On Me
8.Black Wave
9.Spilt Needles
10.Girl Sailor
11.A Comet Appears
Stereophile February 2007 Recording of the Month. Four stars for performance and sonics.
Their third album is the sound of a band growing up and out. James Mercer's infectious, indelible melodic style is still at the core, but on various songs he also channels a Morrissey vibe, pairs a hip-hop beat with lush melodic lines and searing guitars, toys with tweaked-out piano steeped in psychedelic strings, utilizes fractured synth samples, adds gauzy, arpeggiated keyboards that cloak thunderous anthems, and even takes cues from early Jesus And Mary Chain sweeping, fuzz-toned epics. The album also contains the lilting, exhilarating, rollicking, rock-solid pop songs we've all come to covet from The Shins.
"Three albums on, it's impressive how much momentum this quartet has built, how much they still have to say musically, and in how many ingenious and enticing ways they've learned to speak." - Robert Baird, Stereophile Magazine, February 2007
Features:
Includes coupon for free download of entire album
Selections:
1.Sleeping Lessons
2.Australia
3.Pam Berry
4.Phantom Limb
5.Sealegs
6.Red Rabbits
7.Turn On Me
8.Black Wave
9.Spilt Needles
10.Girl Sailor
11.A Comet Appears
