The Shins
The Shins is an American band from Albuquerque, New Mexico, which was founded in 1996 by James Mercer. It is an important representative of the so-called indie - pop.
Band History
The debut album of the German-speaking rather unknown band has the title When You land Here, It's Time To Return. James Mercer, Jesse Sandoval, Marty Crandall and later replaced by Dave Hernandez Neal Langford took the plate or as Flake Music from Omnibus Records on. However, the publication also found in their home country little attention. The band was only successful than they, but not changed instruments and names her style.
In November 2000, The Shins signed a record deal with Sub Pop. In the same year their "second debut" Oh, Inverted World, surprised by huge sales band and record company appeared. The third album is called Chutes Too Narrow and appeared in 2003.
The most famous song of the band is New Slang. It gained a certain reputation, which it both Scrubs in Germany - owes to the beginner as well as the film Garden State. In America, there has also been involved in a commercial of the fast food restaurants McDonald's. In addition, the band had a live appearance on the known in Germany television series Gilmore Girls, in which they present at a club in Florida during Spring Break the song So Says I.
January 23, 2007 their album Wincing the Night Away was released in the U.S. three days later in Germany. It was followed by a tour of the USA and Europe, which led the band in early April 2007 for two concerts in Germany, which took place in Cologne and Berlin with the American indie rock band Viva Voce as support.
Following the temporary cooperation of Mercer with " Danger Mouse " Burton Brian under the name Broken Bells, he reactivated the Shins with a new cast. The fifth, produced by Greg Kurstin album Port of Morrow appeared in March 2012 on Columbia Records.
Criticism
Richard Kämmerlings wrote in 2007 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: " If even remain in retrospect of our strange style loose decade only five, six rock bands in the collective memory, then likely the " including Shins ". [ ... ] Schlicht an epochal band. "
Johanna Merhof wrote in the daily newspaper Die Welt: "Songs for the sinking. [ ... ] Abandoned shrug, as long as there are those songs. In which one can sink so that they become a golden whole. To a warm coat, the one pulls on against the cold of the world. A more beautiful than embrace the song, A Comet Appears ' is hard to imagine. "