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Jaill – Traps

Traps is Jaill’s second release on Sub Pop after 2010′s That’s How We Burn and their third record as a band. Their first album, There’s No Sky (Oh My My), was released on Burger Records as Jail. Apparently Sub Pop forced them to change their name as there was a European band named Jail years ago. Continue reading →

Tags: Andrew Harris, Austin Dutmer, Burger Records, Everyone's a Bitch, Flaming Lips, hipster, House With Haunting, Jaill, Madness, Million Times, Perfect Ten, review, Stone Froze Mascot, Sub Pop, That's How We Burn, the dB's, The Shins, The Unicorns, There's No Sky, Traps, Vinnie Kircher, While You Reload

The Shins – Port of Morrow

28 Mar

Port of Morrow is The Shins’ fourth album and the first on leading man James Mercer’s own label, Aural Apothecary, after satisfying their three-album Sub Pop quota. I gave numerous listens to their first two albums Oh, Inverted World and Chutes Too Narrow including but not limited to: Continue reading →

Tags: Aural Apothecary, Bait and Switch, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Chicago, Chutes Too Narrow, Crystal Skulls, Dave Hernandez, Echo & the Bunnymen, Fall of '82, For a Fool, Garden State, Girls, Greg Kurstin, hipster, indie, James Mercer, Jesse Sandoval, Jessica Dobson, Joe Plumber, Marty Crandall, Mercerites, Mine's Not a High Horse, Modest Mouse, Natalie Portman, Neal Langford, New Slang, New Wave, Now Way Down, Oh Inverted World, Port of Morrow, power pop, review, Richard Swift, September, Shinnists, Simple Song, Sub Pop, The Black Keys, The Rifle's Spiral, The Shins, Wincing the Night Away, Yuuki Matthews, Zach Braff