Natalie Portman a lot Pirucha is in the clinic waiting room with Zach "eldeScrubs" Braff. Just be aware, and she fits her discman headphones. "They will change your life," he says, just before having to listen to New Slang .
That was the first time I heard The Shins, a couple of years when I saw Garden State film, these "low budget" in Hollywood, leaving about 2 million dollars. The introduction of foggy New Slang be sifting through your ears, sooo little by little, until the voice of James Mercer begins, hypnotic: "gold teeth and a curse for this town Were all in my mouth ... ".
The Shins, a band originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, consists of keyboardist Marty Crandall, bassist Dave Hernandez, Jesse Sandolval on drums and singer, guitarist and composer of all the material from The Shins, James Mercer. Four guys with a lot of pint of losers, or rather rare. Could be the four of The Big Bang Theory (which, incidentally, is very good).
The contract for the band's first album in 2001, came at the right time to Mercer, who was already resigned to having to go back to school for lack of musical success, and even told her parents, "this is my last attempt with the music. " Mercer
is carried on their backs with a long way, not only in music. He spent his childhood moving from one end of the planet to the other, inevitably the odd feeling, because of the work of his father, a colonel in the Air Force. So after returning to America, and is tanned in the case of the road, absorbing musical influences first hand the places where he lived, as happened with the Cure and the Smiths during their stay in England.
The germ of The Shins would be Mercer's former band, Flake, which later joined Sandoval and Crandall, impressed with the personality and talent of James. Without ambargo, the band did not last much longer. The new Mercer musical interests with his need to abandon the enforced manteniedo coming punk attitude led to a change of direction which would result in the formation of The Shins. Now Mercer, type and detail obsessive, definitely become the director of the orchestra, establishing itself as the undisputed frontman of the band.
Finally, Oh, Inverted World , the first (and my personal favorite) of the three albums by The Shins (then come Chutes Too Narrow in 2003 and most recently The Night Away wincing of 2007) , along with participation in the Garden State soundtrack , the propel to stardom, or at least all the fame to which can be driven a band that is classified as indie, and is proud of it.
According to Mercer, it's own originality which is not abundant in these times: "I think indie bands like us or Modest Mouse are becoming popular for the same reason that I bought a house in 1940. Growing up in the era of Wal-Mart and 7-Eleven, another supermarket chain, "which were the landscape of my childhood, makes you hungry for authenticity. There is something real out there who can buy, but you have to dig to find it. People are fed up falsehood.. "
And part of that to be true comes from the same creative process that gives rise to records by The Shins. The lyrics and melodies are infused with the melancholy and the feeling of not fitting in Mercer, as well as the specific circumstances in which the songs were written: wincing is a true example of this with its atmosphere even more somber and melancholic than previous records, reflecting seeing was going through difficult times tied to a job that did not like the separation from his girlfriend of the time and it was suffering from insomnia. And that darkness also contributes to the fact that he lived next to a crack house, which looked "like a pimp stick grinds to a toothless prostitute" during the composition of the disc.
However, when recording wincing , Mercer environment changed and moved to Portland (where he bought the former home of Elliott Smith, which shows off to visitors), while maintaining the method for making records that were used in the first two so successfully: it is in the singer's basement where the band is installed to record, an event that will take very quiet. Get rich sound textures, but relaxed atmosphere, which seek to create identical conditions in the study. The bassist of the band itself describes the "roots of the group as a stand and listen to Pink Floyd." Much to be lying on couches drinking beer and smoking dope at 5 am, they say, was basically what was treated OIW gestation process.
I do not know, says Natalie Portman, The Shins will change your life. But let's worth a try.
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