The Shins - Simple Song

I don't often plug new stuff but amidst a pretty uninspiring music scene, with major awards being doled out for utter mediocrity (Ed Sheeran, anyone?), the news that The Shins are back is a blessed relief.

There is a new album out on 20th March, entitled 'Port of Morrow'. The first song to emerge is 'Simple Song', and it's four and a bit minutes of perfect melodic pop loveliness.

The full video can be seen here.

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KILLER COVERS #002: The Shins - (Pink Floyd's) Breathe

Shins frontman James Mercer

The Shins have been on an annoyingly long hiatus since touring to support 2007's glorious Wincing the Night Away album. While there is no official word of any new release, their name has been added to the bill for the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco in August.

On that last tour they would often play this Pink Floyd classic from Dark Side of the Moon as an encore. Recorded live in Sydney, Australia 8.9.2007 - hope you like it.

 Photo by Mike Mantin (Flickr) [CC-BY-2.0 

(www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

THE SHINS - BREATHE

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