Wincing the Night Away
Occupation
- Vocal / Guitar: James Mercer
- Bass Dave Hernandez
- Drums: Jessie Sandoval
- Keyboard: Marty Crandall
Wincing the Night Away is the fourth music album by the American indie band The Shins. It was released in 2007 in Sub Pop, received good reviews and sold mainly in the United States very well. All songs featured on the album were, singer and guitarist for the Shins written by James Mercer. The album's title is an allusion to the song Twistin ' The Night Away by Sam Cooke.
Wincing the Night Away is considered experimental than previous albums the group. In the song Sealegs can find hip-hop -like beats. The guitar is partially replaced by a undeutlicheres keyboard. Mercer's vocals are at times repeated or receives an echo. The album is also about ten minutes longer than the previous albums of the band.
Anita Robinson of Viva Voce, who supported the band during live performances, can be heard in the song Phantom Limb.
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Reception
The majority of the critics took the album to positive. The New Musical Express spoke of the best ever album of the band and gave it nine out of ten possible points. It offers a more varied and more confident sound. The icing on the cake are the lyrics, because you never know on what James Mercer actually wanted out. Robert Christgau wrote in Rolling Stone: " In no case may well be the new music on the modest way it was the old music. Under no circumstances it can be flexible, irritating or unguarded - and it may sound less lyrical or sad or homemade "Instead, you realize Wincing the Night Away at the work of three years.. Christgau gave the album 3.5 stars out of five.
Also, most German critics were impressed by Wincing the Night Away. On laut.de you spoke of a " all-round wonderful - wonderful [n ] " album, much to end early. In intro you said it was " [ ... ] no longer long as catchy and likeable creaky like its predecessors, it produces much clearer and more expensive. ". The pieces are complex, orchestrated wider and " have in music and lyrics quite times atmospheric completely contrary parts. "
Publications and sales
The album was released on 23 January 2007 in the U.S. and peaked in the first week sales of 118,000. Thus, it came on the Billboard 200 album charts at number two, the highest position, which until that point reaches a plate of Sub Pop. In the second week it sold in the U.S. 53,000 times and fell to eighth place in the charts. In the UK, where the album of Transgressive Records is distributed, it came in the first week at number sixteen on the charts. In Canada it came to number two in Sweden to seventeen and in New Zealand to 21
The first single is Phantom Limb. This was made available on iTunes on November 14, 2006 Download and appeared a week later in the U.S. on CD. Phantom Limb, so Mercer, is about a young lesbian couple that with the small town where the girls live, settles.