2005, Sub Pop Records
From the ashes of Flake, then Flake Music, The Shins took shape in 1997 -- same members, different instruments, different approach, culled nearly a decade of playing together. Counterpoint guitars gave way to a single guitar pitted against calculated keyboard passages, swarming indie rock machinations to pop-base melodic endeavors. The resulting sound germinates in a post-punk aesthetic with nods to a traditional pop ethos. There's nothing like it on which to base analysis. Nothing at all. Totally terrific.
Tracklisting
Disc 1
| 1 | Caring Is Creepy |
| 2 | One By One All Day |
| 3 | Weird Divide |
| 4 | Know Your Onion! |
| 5 | Girl Inform Me |
| 6 | New Slang |
| 7 | The Celibate Life |
| 8 | Girl on the Wing |
| 9 | Your Algebra |
| 10 | Pressed in a Book |
| 11 | The Past and Pending |
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