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The Shins
Initially formed as a side project for James Mercer away from his main band
Flake Music, The Shins toured with Modest Mouse in the late 1990s before signing
to legendary alternative label Sub Pop in 2000. Based around Mercer's
well-crafted songs, the delicate, jangly indie pop of early singles New Slang
and Know Your Onion! showed a love of British acts like The Smiths and Echo and
the Bunnymen. Debut album Oh, Inverted World (2001) and its follow-up Chutes Too
Narrow (2003) were hits with critics and the band steadily built a cult
following of indie obscurists; but it was the us...
