The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
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Free Music Notes for Wincing the Night Away
Free Music Review: WARNING
Hit: 5 Stars
If you're unfamiliar with The Shins, or if you favor songs loaded with repetitive, predictable lyrics, then you might listen to this album once and walk away unsatisfied. However, dare to listen to it twice and you'll be hooked.
These guys may appear regular and unassuming, but they'll blindside the unsuspecting with haunting guitar rifts, offbeat drums, and playful lyrics that roll out in a refreshingly unfamiliar pattern - terrific fuel for the creative mind.
Free Music Review: Good album + poor mastering = short life.
Hit: 3 Stars
This is a pretty good album. Other reviewers have commented sufficiently about the songs and music.
It has one outstanding problem that many albums have these days. Someone wanted the CD to be loud. The drums sound awful. Distortion and clipping all over the place. Track 4 has guitar strums that are as loud as the drums, causing the drums to essentially disappear while the guitar is strummed! If it weren't for the fairly prolonged quite parts that The Shins tend to use, the album would be utterly unlistenable. As it is, I can't really bring myself to come back for repeat listens.
Another victim of the loudness war I'm afraid.
Free Music Review: You won't be sorry
Hit: 5 Stars
Get this album now! I don't listen to anything else remotely resembling the Shins, but I LOVE this CD! The songs stay in your brain and come back weeks after you've shelved the thing. And in a good way. I wanted a different Shins CD last year and my wife picked this one up instead. Definitely my favorite!Free Music Review: Pale Ale with Orange and Cinnamon.
Hit: 4 Stars
The best of the music in this CD is perhaps the very best new music I've heard in several years. Even the less accessible tracks are somewhat odd but still vaguely familiar - a bit like going to the neighborhood bar for your customary pint of pale ale and finding it seasoned with orange and cinnamon.
Hey! It's all good. Drink up!
I hear bits of influence from the Replacements, from several unnamed avante garde poets, and even from the Beach Boys. And deep within is something completely original and silken-smooth.
All of it is truly fresh, unique and thought-provoking. As I write this, I've had the album for three months and listened to it at least 15 times and am still finding savory tidbits among the somewhat dense lyrics. Even better, I am intrigued enough that I want to still sift through those lyrics after repeated efforts.
Free Music Review: An absolute pleasure to listen to
Hit: 5 Stars
The Shins never fail to amaze me, every album has it's own special sound. Wincing the Night Away in particular shows a band whose melodic maturity has
easily jumped far beyond most popular acts today, yet they still remain in a perfect state of obscurity. James Mercer's lyrics, and voice along with the almost psychedelic/space rock sound are in perfect sync through out the album.
Favorite tracks: Black Wave, Sea Legs, Sleeping Lessons
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