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February 8, 2007

Bruised Shins

EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Shins frontman James Mercer reveals his songwriting secrets
December 2, 2005

The Shins Get Stoned

Indie darlings bring late-night psychedelia to next album
April 7, 2005

Shins Break New Tunes

Indie rockers take time off from recording to tour
August 5, 2003

The Shins Make Basement Tapes

New "Chutes" due in October

Wincing The Night Away

The Shins' 2001 Oh, Inverted World was a siren song from a familiar type: "pimpled and angry" outsider saved by music, but still cut off from the love he seeks by unkind women and cruel fate. In 2003, Chutes Too Narrow topped two pained kiss-off songs with four fatalistic philosophical ones, then...

2007 RS: 3.5of 5 Stars

Chutes Too Narrow

2003

Oh, Inverted World

2001

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With their jangly and melodic pop the Shins helped bring the pop traditions of 1960s pop bands — groups like the Beatles, the Zombies, and the Beach Boys — to a new generation of music fans under the catchall music sobriquet of ?indie rock.?

The Shins formed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the late 1990s under the name Flake Music. The group — featuring singer-songwriter James...

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