After this months release of The Shins new album "Wincing the Night Away" and the fact that i will be seeing them live for the first time in a couple of months time, i thought i'd dig out this american radio session that was recorded in 2004, just after the last Shins record "Chutes Too Narrow" came out. Wierdly enough, I often choose to listen to these 6 tracks over any of my Shins albums, mainly because without all the other instruments filling out the sound, it is a lot easier to make out Mercer's beautiful lyrics. With just a small crowd of friends for moral support, an acoustic guitar and a harmonica, he manages to make the Shins sing-along pop songs sound as catchy as ever, as well as giving his own twist on a T-Rex classic.
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these are great, thanks for putting them up :)
errant.
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