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...fall victim to the album’s noisy, unnecessary fuzz. Even the softly spoken ballad, “A Comet Appears,” is too familiar to be considered a total reinvention and too mediocre to hold a place with the rest of The Shins oeuvre. The Shins?? old albums gave us quirky, inventive music that became corrupted by association. “Wincing the Night Away” is corrupted from the get-go, and it seems to have been written with a coming-of-age movie script in mind. Catchy, yet safe, the album?...
This monopoly on such mind-numbingly obscure bands as “the Shins?? molded me into a veritable musical übermensch, a power I abused to court “the ladies” and plug into the local college community. For that profound expansion of social capital, I am eternally indebted to Pitchfork...
...soundtrack to last year’s Garden State has peaked at 20 on the Billboard top 200 seems somewhat significant, but not as significant as the word of mouth concerning the film’s score. For those who knew and loved the song beforehand, that the Shins?? “New Slang” is forever destined to be “that song from Garden State” is a humorous tribute to their good taste, and usually a prod to remind the listener that the opening doohs and dahs graced a McDonald?...
...Panic” or Frou Frou’s “Let Go,” “Mrs. Robinson” was written expressly for The Graduate, and there is something to be said for original music that supports an original film. Granted, the Shins?? song is a plot point in the movie, and “The Sound of Silence” which accompanies Benjamin Braddock’s conveyor-belt anesthesia was recorded before The Graduate was made. Ultimately, what I hate is that the Garden State soundtrack isn?...
...Mouse’s “Float On.” The other moment came when I returned to school from the summer, and suddenly, everyone I knew was humming “New Slang” and “Caring is Creepy” from the Shins?? 2001 record Oh, Inverted World, a favorite record of mine for a long time. Had they finally gotten it, after months and months of me expounding on this album’s greatness? Had I finally gotten through to them? Alas, no, I discovered: the hit film Garden...