Chutes Too Narrow

The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow

Chutes Too Narrow
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Artist: The Shins
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-10-21
Music Label: Sub Pop
Soundtracks:
  1. Kissing the Lipless
  2. Mine's Not A High Horse
  3. So Says I
  4. Young Pilgrims
  5. Saint Simon
  6. Fighting In a Sack
  7. Pink Bullets
  8. Turn a Square
  9. Gone For Good
  10. Those to Come

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Free Music Review: Mindblowingly fantastic
Hit: 5 Stars

I just found out about this band a month or so ago. I have not listened to their new album. I'm trying to work my way up to it. I have listened to their first album "Oh, Inverted World." In my opinion, this is the better album. I am shocked that I did not ever hear any of these songs on the radio or anything before listening to them on my brother in laws ipod. If you have never listened to the Shins you MUST buy this album. They are awesome. My faith in music has been restored.

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The Shins' sophomore album is a joy from start to finish, though it's rather different from their 2001 leftfield pop genius stunner Oh, Inverted World. That album was like a warm embrace from a long-lost pal. True to its title, all of the songs were of a piece, seeming to inhabit one landscape, with an invitingly similar sound throughout. Chutes is more far-reaching and decidedly eclectic. Each song is essentially its own genre exercise. There's singer-songwriter James Mercer's surprisingly Perry Farrell-ish wail on the almost indie-metal opener, "Kissing the Lipless"; the lovely pedal steel lilt to "Gone for Good"; the moody folktronica of "Those to Come"; and the Cars-gone-rockabilly riffing on "Turn a Square." The strongest song, the acoustic "Young Pilgrims," is stripped-down and brilliant. On every tune, Mercer packs more hooks and melodic invention than most bands do on one album. As a whole, it's an even better record than Inverted World. --Mike McGonigal
Chutes Too Narrow, The Shins heavily anticipated follow-up (to Oh, Inverted World), was recorded in (singer/songwriter) James Mercer's basement home studio, with later mixing assistance from Phil Ek. And, with 10 songs, clocking in at just over 30 minutes, the new record is a brief yet entirely scintillating glimpse at chiming, reflective and perfectly skewed pop innovation.

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