Sub Pop Records

The Shins / Fighting in a Sack - SP653

Track Listing:
1. Fighting in a Sack
2. Baby Boomerang
3. New Slang (Live with Sam Beam)
4. So Says I (video)

Released: July 13, 2004

The Shins / So Says I - SP621

Track Listing:
1. So Says I
2. Mild Child
3. Gone For Good (Alternate Version)

Released: September 23, 2003

The Shins / Know Your Onion! - SP591

TRACKLIST:

1. Know Your Onion (album version)
2. My Seventh Rib (live)
3. New Slang (live)
4. Sphagnum Esplanade

NOTES:

Available in stores domestically June 4th, 2002.

All songs written by James Mercer
Lettuce Flavored (BMI)

#1 Produced by James Mercer/The Shins. From the album “Oh, Inverted World”

#2 & #3 Recorded live at Graceland, Seattle WA on October 26, 2001. Mixed by Phil Ek

#4 Produced by James Mercer

Released: April 9, 2002

The Shins / Shins Wincing the Night Away 2-Sided Poster - S-WINCE

This is a handsome two-sided poster from The Shins Wincing the Night Away album art! Buy two! Frame them! Your walls will love you for it.

Released: August 24, 2007

The Shins / Australia Single - TRANS051

This 4 song European import CD features the album version of Australia as well as live & alternate version of Sleeping Lessons, Saint Simon, and Girl On A Wing.

Released: May 1, 2007

The Shins / Bluegrass Tribute to the Shins - RS-CMH9125

The Bluegrass Tribute to the Shins reinterprets the band’s progressive pop sound, giving their songs a refreshingly rural twist. The Shins’ melodies and harmonies lend themselves perfectly to these beautifully crafted, countrified covers. Banjo, mandolin, and acoustic guitar combine to enhance the Shins’ organic spirit. James Mercer’s lyrics are given new life when they are belted out with a distinctly bluegrass passion. This album gives a discernible new flavor to old favorites.

Released: April 23, 2007

The Shins / The Shins Wincing the Night Away Black T-shirt (American Apparel) - T-BLACKWINCING

This bad boy features an artistic take on the Shins new album Wincing The Night Away printed on a nice black American Apparel shirt, get it!

Released: January 29, 2007

The Shins / The Shins Wincing the Night Away Army T-shirt (American Apparel) - T-SHINWINCINGARMY

This is an army green American Apparel T-shirt featuring artistic elements from Wincing the Night Away.

XS is American Apparel Ladies Large, Style 2102!

Released: November 16, 2006

The Shins / Phantom Limb - SP734

The Shins have a new album coming out January 23rd, 2007. This is the first single from that album and will include two exclusive b-sides (“Nothing at All” and an alternate version of the album track “Spilt Needles”). This is the song we all think/hope Natalie Portman might like best.

Released: November 21, 2006

The Shins / When I Goose-Step - Digital - sp-0662

The Shins / Pink Bullets I-Tunes Vid Single - sp-0691

Itunes video single

The Shins / Wincing The Night Away - SP705

To play music for a long time, you have to surprise the people that love you—while also surprising yourself. Recorded in singer/guitarist James Mercer’s basement studio, Phil Ek’s Seattle digs, and in Oregon City with veteran producer Joe Chiccarelli (Beck, U2), Wincing the Night Away is The Shins’ third full-length album. It’s also 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. While the vocals channel the spirit of Morrissey, “Sea Legs” pairs a loping hip-hop beat with lush melody and searing guitars. Elsewhere the band toys with tweaked-out, liquid piano steeped in kaleidoscopic strings (“Red Rabbit”); fractured synth samples (“Spilt Needles”); gauzy, arpeggiated keyboards cloaking thunderous anthems (“Sleeping Lessons”); and, taking cues from early Jesus and Mary Chain albums, sweeping, fuzz-toned epics (“Phantom Limb”). Finally, “Turn on Me,” “Girl Sailor” and “Australia” are the lilting, thrilling, rollicking, rock-solid pop songs we’ve all come to covet from The Shins. Consider yourself surprised.

*If you buy the LP of this album, be aware that you’ll be able to download the songs for free to use on your less analog devices.

Released: January 23, 2007

The Shins / Chutes Too Narrow Poster - S-CHUTES

Glossy poster of Chutes Too Narrow cover art.
Measures 18″×24″!

The Shins / Oh Inverted World Poster - S-OIW

Finally! This is the artwork for Oh Inverted World, brought back into print just for you, in poster format. This sucker is 18 × 24 and it will change your bedroom…

Released: December 17, 2004

The Shins / The Shins New Zealand Tour Poster - S-SHINSNZ

Wow, this is a hot one! These posters were shipped to America all the way from New Zealand, the land of the Kiwi. The Shins are touring over there right as I type this… The posters are pretty limited and pretty killer for all of you devoted fans out there.

*The flight from New Zealand very slightly bent one of the corners of these posters, so be on the lookout for that.

The Shins / Shins Pack - S-SHINSPACK

Holy Crap! This is the package you have been waiting for! A few Shins stickers, a Shins button set, and a Sub Pop Records sticker, get it while it lasts, because you know you want it…

Released: November 29, 2004

The Shins / From Tugboats To Polar Bears--short films by Matt McCormick - PP12

Portland filmmaker Matt McCormick makes films that combine found and orginal sounds and images to fashion abstract and witty observations of contemporary culture. In his new documentary Towlines, Matt explores the role of the tugboat in modern society, while in The Subconcious Art of Graffiti Removal he makes the observation that the process of destroying one art form unwitingly creates another. Matt has also worked with artists and musicians including THE SHINS, MIRANDA JULY, THE POSTAL SERVICE, and CALVIN JOHNSON.
85 min/2004/DVD

LISTING:
1. Sincerely, Joe P. Bear
2. The Subconcious Art of Graffiti Removal
3. Grounded
4. Towlines (Original music by James Mercer)
5. The Vyrotonin Decision
6. Going to the Ocean
7. American Nutria (Original music by The Postal Service)
8. Past and Pending (A music video for The Shins)

The Shins / So Says I b/w When I Goose-Step Picture Disc - SP644

Awesome picture disc. Limited edition!

Released: March 5, 2004

The Shins / New Slang/ Sphagnum Esplanade - SP548

The Shins / When I Goose-Step - RS-OMNI022

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The Shins / Chutes Too Narrow - SP625

The Shin’s debut full-length, 2001’s Oh, Inverted World, was a stunner; resoundingly well-received and landing itself on numerous year-end best-of-lists. MOJO placed it at #14 of the year and commented, “This quartet from Albuquerque, New Mexico captured our hearts this summer with their pristine pop perfection.” And, Seattle’s The Straner went even further with, “…a referential, brilliant record which had better blow up, or the world has forgotten what pop music is all about.” As far as we’re concerned it did blow up – seems there’s still some hope for the world and its conception of pop music. Since that first record, singer/songwriter/guitarist James Mercer and drummer Jesse Sandoval moved from Albuquerque to Portland, OR and bassist Neal Langford was replaced with Dave Hernandez (ex-Scared Of Chaka), who played bass on the stand-out track from the first record, “New Slang.” Chutes Too Narrow, their heavily anticipated follow-up, was recorded in James’ basement home studio, with later mixing assistance from Phil Ek (Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, David Cross, Les Savy Fav, etc.). 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.

Released: October 21, 2003

The Shins / Oh, Inverted World - SP550

Here’s what we had to say about the Shins debut record circa 2001. Hailing from Albuquerque, NM, The Shins sprung from the ashes of Flake/Flakemusic in 1997 (though those previous incarnations date back nearly a decade) – same members, different instruments, different approach. Counterpoint guitars have given way to a single guitar pitted against calculated keyboard passages; swarming indie rock machinations led to pop-based melodic endeavors (who knew?).

Released: June 19, 2001