Port Of Morrow The Shins Rar
Port of Morrow The Shins. The Shins The Shins are an American indie rock band from Albuquerque, New Mexico, formed in 1996. The band consists of James Mercer (vocals, guitar), Joe Plummer (drums), Jessica Dobson (guitar), Yuuki Matthews (bass) and Richard Swift (keyboards). The band is currently based in Portland, Oregon. Port of Morrow is the first Shins album whose title doesn’t imply discomfort. Mercer is 41, married with children, and presumably happy. Mercer is 41, married with children, and presumably happy. Port of Morrow has eight players on it, so there really is no Shins anymore. Insert sad emoticon here. Mercer's footloose status means he can veer off-piste, for example his Broken Bells collaboration with Danger Mouse. Port Of Morrow is ranked 4th best out of 6 albums by The Shins on BestEverAlbums.com. The best album by The Shins is Chutes Too Narrow which is ranked number 311 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 9,051. AllMusic Review by Heather Phares [+] Arriving five years after Wincing the Night Away, Port of Morrow was the first Shins album to appear on James Mercer 's Aural Apothecary imprint (also home to Broken Bells, his collaboration with Danger Mouse) and the first without the rest of the band that appeared on. The Shins - Port Of Morrow From the album 'Port Of Morrow', released on March 20th, 2012, and available in: http://itunes.apple.com/us/preorder/p.
Arriving five years after Wincing the Night Away, Port of Morrow was the first Shins album to appear on James Mercer's Aural Apothecary imprint (also home to Broken Bells, his collaboration with Danger Mouse) and the first without the rest of the band that appeared on the remainder of their discography. Instead, Mercer assembled a revolving cast of supporting performers that included Modest Mouse's Joe Plummer, Crystal Skulls' Yuuki Matthews, drummer-at-large Janet Weiss, and producer Greg Kurstin, who gives the album a big, radio-friendly sound. There's no pretense of democracy nor of being 'indie' here, things that might be easier to decry if these weren't some of Mercer's best songs since Chutes Too Narrow. Though there's no core band, Port of Morrow feels more focused than Wincing the Night Away even as Mercer departs from the Shins' classic sound. 'The Rifle's Spiral' begins the album with keyboards that bounce and bubble everywhere, suggesting some of Broken Bells' influence has rubbed off, but the contrast between sweet vocals and barbed words ('you were always to be a dagger floating straight to their heart') that has been a key element since Oh, Inverted World is present and accounted for. Later, 'Simple Song' feels downright triumphant, with big, airy bridges, a surprising minor-key chord change, and frantic guitar solos all coated in pop gloss. Mercer goes farther afield as Port of Morrow progresses, flirting with '70s soft rock on 'For a Fool,' while the title track is equal parts trippy and torchy, pairing a slinky falsetto with some of the album's most arresting imagery ('there are flowers in the garbage and a skull under your curls'). Consciously or not, Mercer channels classic singer/songwriters and members of famed bands gone solo on some of Port of Morrow's highlights: 'Fall of '82' is as wordy, bouncy, and catchy as Billy Joel at his peak, while 'It's Only Life's charming melody and message to take it easy make it the distant cousin of John Lennon's 'Watching the Wheels.' Enough of the album finds Mercer expanding and experimenting that when 'Bait and Switch,' which sounds like a lost Oh, Inverted World track transplanted to much fancier digs, or the Chutes Too Narrow-like rumination 'September' pops up, it's almost startling. These are some of Mercer's most wide-ranging songs with any of his projects, to the point where it might be a little disingenuous to call this a Shins album, and slightly disappointing for any fans who had invested in them being a band rather than a James Mercer vehicle. Questions of semantics and authenticity aside, Port of Morrow's songs are compelling enough to keep most fans listening and enjoying.
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*No set release date for this album yet. I will update this when a concrete date is set.
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March 20th is the official release date. They announced it when they released Simple Song. Check the website.
http://simplesong.theshins.com/
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The site has a lot of promise, when I first heard about this album I came on here and thought “I’ll have to keep an eye on this”, then Simple Song was released and it showed up on here, but that’s kinda where this site stopped updating. Along with the songs release was the release date of the album, “March 20th”. Someone (Ron) even made it a point to comment about it, but the page still shows the release date as March 31st. They’ve also released the track “September”, but there’s nothing about that posted. Maybe it’s a lack of users or user interest in this album, but I just feel like this site is lacking a little in the “news updating” department. Oh and, I like the idea that three regular users have to confirm it has leaked before it becomes official, but it kinda bugs that for weeks now one person claims the album has leaked, which it clearly hasn’t. I feel like the site should remove that, there are tons of fake leaks out there and if someone sees this and thinks “oh man, Port of Morrow leaked!” and then downloads some bullshit virus or spyware or pays for some whack subscription, it might reflect poorly on the site (not nearly as much as the fool who fell for the fakes, but still.) That’s just my little rant. Not very solutions oriented or anything, I don’t mean to offend the people who run the site, I just honestly meant what I wrote, I wish this site was as awesome as it could be. (and for the record, I’ve only checked out this one album, so for all I know everything else is awesome.)
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I’ve seen people listening to it on last.fm who don’t have a watermarked copy, this must have leaked by now! come on!
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For real, it comes out in less than 3 weeks…albums leak months before sometimes wtf
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It wouldn’t be as frustrating if it weren’t for the fact that the last two James Mercer albums leaked SUPER early. Wincing the Night Away in October (January release) and Broken Bells in December (March release).
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Hasn’t leaked as far as I can see. And IF those past two albums have leaked as early before I’m sure all attempts are made to prevent that for a third time. Be patient. Please remember, Has It Leaked Is a place that reports leaks. We have no say over when an album leaks.
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I don’t think anyone was implying this site has any say in the speed of the leak, but rather, were just expressing how much we want it to so we can hear it. That’s at least the case for me.
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You can stream the album from iTunes so it’s just a matter of time before someone puts full album online :)
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Is it just me – or am I not seeing this leak everyone is talking about?
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Not just you. I have looked for an extensive amount of time on multiple leak sites and torrent sites.
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It leaked. This site doesn’t allow people to post links to leaks, it’s just about informing people when one does.
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The leak report says it was found on The Pirate bay.
Edit: Even a FLAC version was reported at What.cd
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“Port of Morrow” has leaked at All Leaks.
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Finally getting around to this. Not bad at all. I don’t know what I was expecting but I could certainly listen to this on repeat for a few days. What do you think about it thus far?