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The Shins is tagged as: indie, indie rock, indie pop, alternative, rock

The Shins are an American indie rock band consisting of James Mercer (vocals, guitar), Dave Hernandez (guitar), Ron Lewis (bass), Eric Johnson (keyboards) and Joe Plummer (drums). They formed in 1997, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States as a side project of Mercer (previously of Blue Roof Dinner) and bassist Jesse Sandoval, who were both members of the lo-fi rock group Flake Music (formed as Flake 1992). Ron Lewis is also a member of Grand Archives and Joe Plummer is one of two drummers for Modest Mouse. The band was signed to Sub Pop following a successful tour in 2000 with Modest Mouse, and they now reside in Portland, Oregon.
Their 2001 debut album, Oh, Inverted World received near-universal critical acclaim, causing many critics to predict a mass wave of Beach Boys-inspired bands. That wave never truly came, but the Shins enjoyed a rapidly expanding fanbase, and even saw their music featured on a McDonalds advertisement. That may have been artistic suicide for them, had it not been that the song featured (“New Slang”), included the lines “New slang/when you notice the stripes/the dirt in your fries,” as well as “God speed all the bakers at dawn/may they all cut their thumbs/And bleed into their buns/’till they melt away.”
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Top 10 The Shins Songs
New Slang
Australia
Phantom Limb
Sleeping Lessons
Kissing the Lipless
Caring Is Creepy
Turn On Me
So Says I
Girl Inform Me
Red Rabbits
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Top 10 The Shins Albums
Wincing the Night Away
Oh, Inverted World
Chutes Too Narrow
2004-04-16: Austin, TX, USA
So Says I
Phantom Limb
Fighting in a Sack
Nature Bears a Vacuum
Oh Inverted World
Know Your Onion!
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