Shins - Wincing the Night Away
- Sleeping Lessons
- Australia
- Pam Berry
- Phantom Limb
- Sealegs
- Red Rabbits
- Turn on Me
- Black Wave
- Spilt Needles
- Girl Sailor
- Comet Appears
- Format
- Vinyl LP
- Genre
- Indie Rock
- Tracks
- 11
Their third album is the sound of a band growing up and out. James Mercer's infectious, indelible melodic style is still at the core, but on various songs he also channels a Morrissey vibe, pairs a hip-hop beat with lush melodic lines and searing guitars, toys with tweaked-out piano steeped in psychedelic strings, utilizes fractured synth samples, adds gauzy, arpeggiated keyboards that cloak thunderous anthems, and even takes cues from early Jesus And Mary Chain sweeping, fuzz-toned epics.
- Sleeping Lessons
- Australia
- Pam Berry
- Phantom Limb
- Sea Legs
- Red Rabbits
- Turn on Me
- Black Wave
- Spilt Needles
- Girl Sailor
- A Comet Appears
- Format
- CD
- Genre
- Indie Rock
- Tracks
- 11
Recorded over time in James Mercer's basement studio, Phil Ek's Seattle digs, and in Oregon City with veteran engineer Joe Chiccarelli (Beck, U2) - Wincing the Night Away is a Whole new animal. It's is the sound of a band growing up and out. Mercer's infectious, indelible melodic style is still at the core, and unfaltering. But anything can happen around it - and in this case, it does. Channeling a Morrissey vibe, 'Sea Legs' pairs a hip-hop (yes, hip-hop) beat with lush melodic lines and searing guitars. Elsewhere the band toys with tweaked-out piano steeped in psychedelic strings ('Red Rabbit'); fractured synth samples ('Silt Needles')' gauzy, arpeggiated keyboards cloaking thunderous anthems (Sleeping Lessons')' and, taking cues from early Jesus and Mary Chain albums - Seeping, fuzztoned epics ('Phantom Limb'). Finally, 'Turn on Me, ' 'Girl Sailor' and 'Australia' are the lilting, exhilarating, rollicking, rock-solid pop songs we've all come to covet from The Shins.
