Listen: The Shins, “Simple Song”

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on January 9, 2012M at 1:48 pm

The Shins’ “Simple Song” debuted today, featuring James Mercer and a mostly new Shins lineup sounding largely as one might expect five years after “Wincing the Night Away” — the production and arrangements continue the “Wincing” direction toward polish and detail, but it clearly sounds like the Shins rather than an extension of the Broken Bells aesthetic. The new album, “Port of Morrow,” arrives on March 20.
– Lang