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The Shins

Sealegs

Label: Sub Pop Release Date: 03/12/2007

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GarethD by Gareth Dobson December 4th, 2007

Good band and everything, The Shins, but on occasion, a misplaced sense of Adult Rock can leave you seriously bored.

Unfortunately, someone over at Big Record Company Towers had the misfortune to select one of said dull-as-shit tracks as the final victory release of their perfectly good third LP, Wincing The Night Away.

The guitars on 'Sealegs' scream ‘thoughtful’, while the bass shouts ‘sensibly underpinned’. The less said about that keyboards that say ‘quite liked Genesis in the 80s’, the better.

The Shins: probably got better songs than this.

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