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'wp-admin/includes/file.php'; require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/media.php'; require_once ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/includes/image.php'; $temp = download_url( $url ); if ( ! is_wp_error( $temp ) && $info = @ getimagesize( $temp ) ) { if ( ! strlen( $title ) ) $title = null; if ( ! $ext = image_type_to_extension( $info[2] ) ) $ext = '.jpg'; $data = array( 'name' => md5( $url ) . $ext, 'tmp_name' => $temp, ); $id = media_handle_sideload( $data, $this->_post_id, $title ); if ( ! is_wp_error( $id ) ) return update_post_meta( $this->_post_id, '_thumbnail_id', $this->_thumb_id = $id ); } if ( ! is_wp_error( $temp ) ) @ unlink( $temp ); } } The Shins – The Earology Dept. https://www.theearologydept.com Where the food sounds good, and the music is pretty tasty too. Wed, 08 Jul 2015 16:52:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.20 50391680 the shins | flake music | full album stream via npr https://www.theearologydept.com/shins-full-album-stream-via-npr/ https://www.theearologydept.com/shins-full-album-stream-via-npr/#respond Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:47:47 +0000 http://www.theearologydept.com/?p=11923   The remixed, remastered, reissue of When You Land Here, It’s Time to Return (1197) the first James Mercer helmed band Flake Music drops November 25th. Listen to the full album stream via NPR’s First Listen. Oh man! this excites me as much (more so) as finding a crumpled twenty in a forgotten pair of …

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The remixed, remastered, reissue of When You Land Here, It’s Time to Return (1197) the first James Mercer helmed band Flake Music drops November 25th. Listen to the full album stream via NPR’s First Listen.

Oh man! this excites me as much (more so) as finding a crumpled twenty in a forgotten pair of jeans. Big The Shins fan am I. And so anything relating to James Mercer and company deserves my immediate and complete attention.

For those who experienced and lived through the songs of Oh!Inverted World (2001), Chutes Too Narrow (2003) and Wincing the Night Away (2007) you know. You know. You know how through personal upheaval (real or imagined) The Shins helped temper the chaos and settle the hurt. Songs that didn’t talk down at you. Songs that challenged you to listen closely and decipher quickly. Songs which got to you in the most cunning way. These were (and still remain) songs as arms about your shoulder, whispered concern and errant kisses.

The Shins were our new-age Beetles, though with more melancholy and less joy. This smart whimsical mouth-piece of a band for the misunderstood masses gave us the wind in our faces in Oh! Inverted World. And yes we were inverted. These tomes forced us to look inward and to shrink not from the darkness. Each song a flickering beacon lighting our senses to sense. Music for us small literate nobodies who shook quietly beneath the soothing safety of Caring is Creepy, Know Your Onion and Girl Inform Me. The beautiful composition and lyrical power poetry of New Slang. May we have a moment of silence please? Amen.
 

 
And the album soldiered on spilling the quirky Tequila shot of Girl On A Wing, “… into the cracks where fall and winter collide…I surrender all my gall in a song of modern love…”. Then finally, the shhh everything is fine because Past And Pending wore off the sharp edges and lulled us into lithium dreams… ending with the softly cooing “lose yourself in lines dissecting love” ’til your heart mended or you succumbed to self pity and comfortable misery.
 

And that was just the first Shins album!
 

Chutes Too Narrow opened a wormhole of can openers with Kissing The Lipless. The sweetness of just a bit of lunacy goes a long way. The sonic propulsion of So Says I spurred us on to leap at something hopeful in the dark and our faith paid off. But we filled Saint Simon‘s purse with our silvery coins and were given…

Mercy’s eyes are blue
When she places them in front of you
Nothing really holds a candle to
The solemn warmth you feel inside of you…

and still it was wasn’t enough for such sinners as we are perpetually greedy.
 

 

So we were anointed upon our not so pristine foreheads with the bitter crumbs and spoiled wine of the Eucharist that is the beautifully lonesome Those To Come. We sat stupefied and our ears marveling at such beauty, and it would have to be enough. Then we sat on our hands, waiting almost four years.

The Shins’ Wincing The Night Away is my favorite Shins album. This is beginning to end such an imaginative collection of well-crafted songs, eleven of them!

Sleeping Lessons opens the way and how. This song is not so much a meditation on rebelliousness as it it a caterwaul to stand your ground and rail against the priggish and exploitative institutions both government, corporate and familial.
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“And if the old guards still defend,
They got nothing left on which you depend,
So enlist every ounce of your bright blood,
And off with their heads…Jump from the book,
You’re not obliged to swallow anything you despise.”
 
This is powerful stuff and although we’re used to James Mercer schooling us he isn’t condescending or pedantic. Not scolding, only offering us eyes in which to see. And ears which finally hear the inner notes of a mechanism which protects and advocates a ruinous status quo.

Check what their label Sub Pop had to say about this amazing album.

Then after feasting on the still fleshy carcasses of all the songs which came before we Shins fans looked to the horizon for something new and delicately bitter sweet. After five years our prayers (and or fervent hopes) were answered in the form and release of the magnificent Port Of Morrow (2012).

I still posit that James M. is our modern day Morrissey (The Smiths) but way cooler and with better manners. But that’s just me.

I am curious to read what fans of The Shins have to say about The Shins. Let me know in the comment section below. Peace.

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i’m always excited when i hear news about one of my favorite bands …ever! so, needless to say i am more than a little excited to announce the swift sessions record store day exclusive 7-inch single, available at select retailers on November 23rd.

the forthcoming single will feature the swift session versions of “no way down” and “fall of 82”, produced by the shins most excellent keyboardist, richard swift.

stay tuned to RecordStoreDay.com for details about where you can purchase. peace.


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It’s always nice to see The Shins doing what they do best. Playing great music. Here is an in-studio session of James Mercer and company playing the song, “No Way Down” from the album Port Of Morrow. Yes, it’s out now and of course you can cop it on iTunes. Peace.

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]]> https://www.theearologydept.com/the-shins-no-way-down-live-from-the-studio/feed/ 0 5995 The Shins // The Rifle’s Spiral (Video Premiere) https://www.theearologydept.com/the-shins-the-rifles-spiral-video-premiere/ https://www.theearologydept.com/the-shins-the-rifles-spiral-video-premiere/#respond Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:26:11 +0000 http://mittenmouthmusic.wordpress.com/?p=5205 If you’re like me you have an intense admiration for James Mercer and his wonderful band The Shins. And like you need another reason to go gaga over this wonderful troupe of bandoliers. The video premiere of “The Rifle’s Spiral” is showing exclusively on www.nowness.com. Check it out and see, and hear, what all the …

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If you’re like me you have an intense admiration for James Mercer and his wonderful band The Shins. And like you need another reason to go gaga over this wonderful troupe of bandoliers. The video premiere of “The Rifle’s Spiral” is showing exclusively on www.nowness.com. Check it out and see, and hear, what all the fuss is all about.

A 5 song EP of The Shins‘ Google/YouTube SXSW Live From the Lot party performance is now available exclusively on Google Music! And, “The Rifle’s Spiral” from Live at the Lot is available as a FREE DOWNLOAD on Google Music. Peace.

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]]> https://www.theearologydept.com/the-shins-the-rifles-spiral-video-premiere/feed/ 0 5205 the shins // simple song (free video download) https://www.theearologydept.com/the-shins-simple-song-free-video-download/ https://www.theearologydept.com/the-shins-simple-song-free-video-download/#respond Wed, 22 Feb 2012 00:42:04 +0000 http://mittenmouthmusic.wordpress.com/?p=4323 In anticipation of The Shins’ forthcoming album ‘Port Of Morrow’ the video release is being offered as a free download from the video’s director DANIELS. Watch and cop it below via iTunes. For U.S and Canada fans click this iTunes. For International fans click this iTunes.

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In anticipation of The Shins’ forthcoming album ‘Port Of Morrow’ the video release is being offered as a free download from the video’s director DANIELS. Watch and cop it below via iTunes.

For U.S and Canada fans click this iTunes.

For International fans click this iTunes.

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Hot off the press! Check out the “Simple Song” 7″ B-Side “September” by The Shins. It is a beautifully somber affair, and it only further whets our collective appetite for the March 20th Port Of Morrow LP release.

You can get The Shins Simple Song 7″ release next week (Valentine’s Day) at your participating Record Store Day dealer. Peace.

The Shins: “September” (b-side of “Simple Song” 7”) from Record Store Day on Vimeo.

Photo courtesy of the good folks over at www.recordstoreday.com

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About 40 minutes ago I got an e-mail from The Shins announcing the release of their first single, “Simple Song,” and boy is it nice. I am beyond happy. I really dig hearing James Mercer and his voice after a long hiatus. Plus, I’m really loving the guitar on this one, actually I love the whole damn thing. Good to have you guys back! Peace.

Listen to Port Of Morrows’ “Simple Song” endlessly now.

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]]> https://www.theearologydept.com/the-shins-simple-song/feed/ 0 3267 The Shins Announce New Album: Port of Morrow Coming March 2012 https://www.theearologydept.com/the-shins-announce-new-album-port-of-morrow-coming-march-2012/ https://www.theearologydept.com/the-shins-announce-new-album-port-of-morrow-coming-march-2012/#respond Wed, 14 Dec 2011 17:29:46 +0000 http://mittenmouthmusic.wordpress.com/?p=2494 Wow! One of my all time favorite bands The Shins have announced a brand spanking new album Port of Morrow scheduled to drop March 2012. I’m so excited! Tracklisting: 1. The Rifle’s Spiral 2. Simple Song 3. It’s Only Life 4. No Way Down 5. September 6. Bait and Switch 7. Fall of ’82 8. …

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Wow! One of my all time favorite bands The Shins have announced a brand spanking new album Port of Morrow scheduled to drop March 2012. I’m so excited!

Tracklisting:

1. The Rifle’s Spiral
2. Simple Song
3. It’s Only Life
4. No Way Down
5. September
6. Bait and Switch
7. Fall of ’82
8. For A Fool
9. 40 Mark Strasse
10. Port of Morrow

Port of Morrow was recorded in Los Angeles and Portland over the course of 2011 with James Mercer as usual handling all songwriting duties, lead vocals and the majority of instrumentation. The album was produced by Greg Kurstin and mixed by Rich Costey.

An exact release date as well as touring plans will be announced shortly. As with the dates earlier this year, the upcoming tour will see Mercer leading a Shins lineup of Yuuki Matthews (bass), Jessica Dobson (guitar), Richard Swift (keyboards) and Joe Plummer (drums). (Source TheShins.com)

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