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The Shins

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Initially formed as a side project for James Mercer away from his main band Flake Music, The Shins toured with Modest Mouse in the late 1990s before signing to legendary alternative label Sub Pop in 2000. Based around Mercer's well-crafted songs, the delicate, jangly indie pop of early singles New Slang and Know Your Onion! showed a love of British acts like The Smiths and Echo and the Bunnymen. Debut album Oh, Inverted World (2001) and its follow-up Chutes Too Narrow (2003) were hits with critics and the band steadily built a cult following of indie obscurists; but it was the us...
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Oh, Inverted World

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Simple SongThe Shins

Port of Morrow

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Oh, Inverted World

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Caring Is CreepyThe Shins

Oh, Inverted World

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Oh, Inverted World

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Pink BulletsThe Shins

Chutes Too Narrow

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