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| AbsolutePunk |
 Something strange happened between the last two releases for The Shins: They got huge. After Natalie Portman said those magical words on the indie hit Garden State, the Albuquerque, New Mexico, quartet’s world was definitely inverted. The small name drop helped The Shins first two albums – 2001’s Oh, Inverted World and 2003’s Chutes Too Narrow – eclipse the million sales mark worldwide. Now four years since their last release, The Shins have aimed even higher with their third album on Sub Pop, Wincing The Night Away....full text |
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| Spin |
| You know, the Shins never seemed like the kind of guys who could actually change your life. Even now, when you watch Natalie Portman hand her oversize headphones to Zach Braff and attest to the band's transformative powers (in that infamous scene from Garden State), it feels like a mistake. You almost expect someone to enter the shot and say, "Umm, sweetie, you were supposed to say Coldplay." The Shins have always seemed too unassuming for such a responsibility. These are modest indie guys who grew up in humdrum New Mexico, after all. Whose life could they possibly change?...full text |
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| Uncut |
| Oh, Natalie Portman: Such a blessing and a curse. When she played “New Slang” for Zach Braff in Garden State and announced “The Shins will change your life,” she both propelled the New Mexico quartet into indie-rock infamy (making them—through the combined sales of their 2001 debut Oh, Inverted World and 2003’s Chutes Too Narrow—Sub Pop’s biggest-selling act since Nirvana) and set the expectations for their next record unfeasibly high....full text |
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