Chutes Too Narrow

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Artist: Shins
Label: SUB POP
Genre: Rock, Pop
Format:Vinyl LP
Format:Vinyl LP
Format:CD
Format:CD
Released:20th October 2023
Released:20th October 2023
Released:15th March 2004
Released:20th October 2023
Catalogue No:SP1570X
Catalogue No:SP1570
Catalogue No:SPCD625
Catalogue No:SPCD1570
Barcode:0098787157000
Barcode:0098787157017
Barcode:0098787062526
Barcode:0098787157024

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Track listing: Kissing the Lipless Mines Not a High Horse So Says I Young Pilgrims Saint Simon Fighting in a Sack Pink Bullets Turn a Square Gone for Good Those to Come Description: This 2023 edition of The Shins’s beloved second album, Chutes Too Narrow, celebrates the album’s 20th anniversary with a fresh remaster by Adam Ayan, supervised by band leader James Mercer, and lovely new packaging for the vinyl. Following The Shins’s breakout 2001 debut, Oh, Inverted World, singer/songwriter/guitarist James Mercer and drummer Jesse Sandoval moved from Albuquerque to Portland, OR and bassist Neal Langford was replaced with Dave Hernandez (ex-Scared Of Chaka), who played bass on the stand-out track from the first record, “New Slang.” Chutes Too Narrow, their heavily anticipated follow-up, was recorded in James’ basement home studio, with later mixing assistance from Phil Ek (Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, David Cross, Les Savy Fav, etc.). And, with 10 songs, clocking in at just over 30 minutes, Chutes Too Narrow is a brief yet entirely scintillating glimpse at chiming, reflective and perfectly skewed pop innovation. It was released to widespread acclaim in 2003, garnering Pitchfork’s Best New Music, four stars from Rolling Stone, and raves from the New York Times, MOJO, the Village Voice, SPIN, and tons more. It subsequently made best-of-the-decade lists from The AV Club, NME, Paste, Pitchfork, and Uncut.