{"id":5680,"date":"2012-04-24T08:15:17","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=5680"},"modified":"2012-04-24T08:15:17","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T15:15:17","slug":"the-shins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/04\/the-shins\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SHINS"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5681\" title=\"THE-SHINS-M-Review-MarApr2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/THE-SHINS-M-Review-MarApr2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/THE-SHINS-M-Review-MarApr2012.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/THE-SHINS-M-Review-MarApr2012-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>T<\/strong><strong>HE SHINS<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><em>Port of Morrow<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Aural Apothecary]<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Following the Shins\u2019 2007 album <em>Wincing the Night Away<\/em>, leader James Mercer stretched in new directions\u2014collaborating with Danger Mouse in Broken Bells, doing soundtracks and even trying a little acting. He\u2019s come back home on <em>Port of Morrow<\/em>, the Shins\u2019 fourth record, and his wistful pop sensibility remains very much intact. Perhaps the biggest difference here is the immediacy of his lyrics, which are far more direct than on earlier albums. He turns philosophical on the gently bobbing \u201cIt\u2019s Only Life\u201d and muses about love on \u201cSeptember,\u201d a low-key love song for Mercer\u2019s wife that gets accented with understated percussion. \u201cSimple Song\u201d is the thread connecting <em>Port of Morrow<\/em> with its predecessors, thanks to a triumphant hook that leaves space for piano and, in the background, roiling guitar. It\u2019s only one highlight on a welcome return from one of\u00a0indie-pop\u2019s true craftsmen. \u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE SHINS Port of Morrow [Aural Apothecary] Following the Shins\u2019 2007 album Wincing the Night Away, leader James Mercer stretched in new directions\u2014collaborating with Danger Mouse in Broken Bells, doing soundtracks and even trying a little acting. He\u2019s come back home on Port of Morrow, the Shins\u2019 fourth record, and his wistful pop sensibility remains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,3401,3303,3400,3399],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5682,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5680\/revisions\/5682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}