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So the kid who offered the whole thing up to us was a Shins fan." [18] Online message boards (many on Pitchfork) and fans of the Shins criticized the move as excessively commercialist. [17] The band's hometown alt weekly ran an editorial titled "McShins, New Corporate Suck-ass" in reaction. [19]
The official music video was directed by Matt McCormick.Shot in Vancouver, Washington, it shows the band members arriving at a car dealership.While one of them poses as a customer to distract the salespeople, the others coordinate a theft of the many gas-filled balloons the dealership has affixed to their cars to advertise their merchandise.
Matt from A Heart is a Spade considered the song a "heart-on-sleeve" track and called its accompanying video "sentimental". [4] Conversely, Michael Roffman of Consequence of Sound gave the song a negative review, stating that the song is "the sort of sappy fluff whose plasticity poisons a genre".
The Shins is an American indie rock band formed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1996. The band is the project of singer-songwriter James Mercer , who has served as the band's sole constant member throughout numerous line-up changes.
The Shins performing in 2007. American rock band The Shins have recorded songs for four studio albums, compilation appearances and bonus tracks. Songs
Additionally, Mercer stated that the song was also, in part, about the departures of drummer Jesse Sandoval and keyboardist Martin Crandall from The Shins. [ 1 ] Explaining the origins of the song, Mercer revealed that he wrote the song in the living room of his apartment, shortly following his marriage and in the period leading to the birth of ...
"Phantom Limb" is a song by American indie rock band The Shins, and is the fourth track on their third album Wincing the Night Away. The song was also released as the first single from that album in the United States on November 14, 2006 as a digital download and a week later on CD.
When the bridge comes, the video leaves the two workers as one is carefully taking a wafer from the other, and dives into a sequence of shots of machines assembling wafers; then zooms in on a bank of chips; then zooms out to show the chips are inside of a satellite; then zooms in on the Earth and down to the city block containing ...