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seven-seas-digest        Sunday, June 12 2005        Volume 04 : Number 199




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Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2005 22:41:47 -0700
From: Douglas Duncan <fldhcky@cox.net>
Subject: seven-seas EATB mention

>PRIMARY 
>GENRE: 
>
>Baroque Pop
>
>It would be nice to think that the Shins just exploded into the indie rock 
>world back in
>2001, arriving out of nowhere and inspiring immediate devotion from those 
>who like their
>pop charged with smarts. Truth is, the roots of the band stretch back 
>nearly five years
>earlier, when singer/lyricist James Mercer had the band Flake in New 
>Mexico. Flake begat
>Flake Music. Flake Music did an album, toured and basically embodied the 
>sound of an
>indie rock band struggling, but to their credit doing much more than that, 
>by creating
>slighty spiky, melodic pop. The key factor in the story came when James 
>Mercer decided
>he wanted to do his own project, his own songs, either for his own solo 
>album or under
>the unlikely name of the Shins. He goes for the Shins. His compatriots in 
>Flake Music
>heard the new songs, jumped ship and suddenly everyone is a Shin. The 
>songs were
>recorded and ended up over at Sub Pop, and the next thing you know, the 
>Shins are
>touring and eeking their way into the indie rock subconscious, helping Sub 
>Pop sell more
>records than they have in years. As for the music: you can't hear "New 
>Slang" and not
>think it's a good song. It's just impossible. The group's other songs walk 
>that
>much-coveted line between familiarity and originality. There's a little 
>bit of Kinks, a
>little bit of Beach Boys, some Echo & The Bunnymen, but it's truly nothing 
>like any of
>those. It's book-smart pop that doesn't try to be too witty; it just wants 
>to be part of
>the musical landscape for maybe a few minutes, maybe more. Through this, 
>they've become
>romanticized and even imitated. A success story, to say the 
>least. 



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