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Oh Inverted World by: Shins List Price: £9.99 CD-Charts Price: £7.98 You Save: £2.01 (20%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0098787055023 Format: Enhanced Label: Sub Pop Manufacturer: Sub Pop Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sub Pop Release Date: August 16, 2004 Studio: Sub Pop Sales Rank: 2973 MPN: 550 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.co.uk Review: Oh, Inverted World, the sun-baked debut album from Albuquerque indie quartet The Shins, signposts a fascinating change of direction for Sub Pop Records. Back in the early 90s, bands like Nirvana and Mudhoney made the name synonymous with the dark, angst-ridden grunge sound. Now, it would seem, Sub Pop wears a flower in its hair. The florid harmonies and bucolic acoustics of "Caring Is Creepy" and "Know Your Onion" bring to mind a vision of the verdant hills and gleaming bays of California that's remained largely dormant since The Beach Boys hung up their surfboards: a sound that's undeniably nostalgic, but so vividly realised and perfectly recorded it seems almost churlish to mention it. It's not all simple sunshine pop, either: the delicate, melancholy spaghetti western strum of "New Slang" recalls the barren desertscapes of Ennio Morricone, while the shadowy, monastic vocals and trilling cellos of "Your Algebra" provide a chilling two minutes of commendably dark psychedelia. Sure, it might have one foot in the past but Oh, Inverted World sounds like a fresh start for Sub Pop--one that drowns out the muddy roar of grunge with the hum of good vibrations. --Louis Pattison Description: Debut full length from this New Mexico quartet is a classy retro pop offering with deft psychedelic touches. The Shins have been favourably compared to early Pink Floyd, Love and Moby Grape. Features the single 'New Slang'. Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - Oh, Inverted WorldThe Shins make great pop music. All of the songs on this album have a bright, catchy appeal. They are laid back but refreshingly original. My particular stand-out tracks are Caring is Creepy, Know Yr Onion!, New Slang, Girl on the Wing and Pressed in a Book. The only one I skip is the befuddling Your Algebra. As well as the quality music, James Mercer's lyrics are a delight in themselves. Lines like 'a luscious mix of words and tricks' or 'no icicles stuck in my hide' show what an inventive lyricist he is. A pity you cannot always discern the words in the songs, but the CD jacket has them printed. Chutes Too Narrow is the more accessable album so you may want to start your Shins experience there, but this is still ... Read More: Rating:  - GorgeousI kept meaning to go and see Garden Sate but missed it, so missed out on The Shins until a couple of days ago when my son played me a compilation album one of his pals had made up with Caring is Creepy on it and I was hooked. Was worried that Caring would be the best thing on the album, but it isn't ;there's not a bad song on it. New Slang is just lovely, the lyrics are beautiful ; never mind I've no idea what they mean. Words like " beautiful " get bandied around far too easily to describe bland pap ( step up James Blunt and Katie Melua) but this really is beautiful, thoughtful and intelligent Rating: - A 21st Century masterpiece...2001's 'Oh, Inverted World' remains one of the great albums released thus far in the zeroes - a classic I'd rate alongside such albums as 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot','Mass Romantic','snow borne sorrow','69 Love Songs','Carbon Glacier','Turn on the Bright Lights'& 'Lift Yr Skinny Fists...' It was on some Sub Pop samplers I became aware of The Shins - the wonderful 'New Slang (When You Notice the Stripes' sounding like a more sophisticated Elliott Smith. The Shins album fitting into a similar spectrum to acts like Apples In Stereo,The Kingsbury Manx and The New Pornographers. There's a sense of pop here, alongside elements of folk and psychedelia - any fans of more recent bands like The Arcade Fire and The Decemberists should find much ... Read More: Rating: - Strange,very strange indeed!On hearing this for the first time I wasn't sure what the hell I was listening to! The first thing that strikes you is the production-the whole record has such an eerie veneer-as if The Zombies had composed the soundtrack to a long forgotten horror film. The sixties references are easy to spot,from The Kinks to the above mentioned Zombies.Then as these nuggets of psych-pop wormed their way into my brain I stopped playing spot the influence and started to enjoy this great record. For lovers of Elephant 6/ Kinks/ Zombies and the first Simian album. Rating: - On a lazy afternoon..The Shins are an innovative band, blending traditional indie rythms with an experimental use of reverberated and distorted melodies and stretched vocals. The prequel to 'Chutes too Narrow', 'Oh,Inverted World' is full of echoed chants, drifting melodies and lazy-afternoon lyrics. If you're looking for sing-along anthems then this is perhaps not the album for you (try 'Chutes too Narrow') but 'Oh, Inverted World' is the perfect Sunday soundtrack. |
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