Chutes Too Narrow
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| Studio album by The Shins | ||||
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Publication |
2003 |
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| Label (s) | Sub pop | |||
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Format (s) |
CD |
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Indie pop |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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running time |
33 min 50 s |
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The Shins, Phil Ek |
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Studio (s) |
Avast! Studio, Seattle |
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Chutes Too Narrow is the second studio album by American indie pop - band The Shins in 2003. The album title is a line of text from the Song Young Pilgrims removed.
Emergence
After Mercer and Sandoval moved to Portland , Oregon in 2002 , bassist Neal Langford split from the band, Crandall stayed with the band from Albuquerque and Dave Hernandez, who now lived near Seattle after his stay in New York, rejoined the band. The first parts of the album were created in Mercer's apartment in early summer 2003. Other parts of the album were included in the Avast! Studios in Seattle , Washington recorded under the production of Phil Ek and all tracks mixed in the studio. Ek had already produced for Modest Mouse , who were under contract with the same music label as The Shins, and influenced the sound from more keyboard-oriented pop music to more guitar-heavy rock music. The Sub Pop label released the album in October 2003.
Track list
All songs were written by James Mercer.
- Kissing the Lipless - 3:19
- Mine's Not a High Horse - 3:20
- So Says I - 2:48
- Young Pilgrims - 2:47
- Saint Simon - 4:25
- Fighting in a Sack - 2:26
- Pink Bullets - 3:53
- Turn a Square - 3:11
- Gone for Good (A Call to Apathy) - 3:13
- Those to Come - 4:24
- Mild Child (Japanese Bonus Track) - 4:29
occupation
The Shins:
- James Mercer : vocals, guitar, harmonica
- Dave Hernandez: Bass
- Jessie Sandoval: drums
- Marty Crandall: Keyboard
Guest musicians:
- Annemarie Ruljancich - violin on Saint Simon
- Kevin Suggs - Pedal Steel Guitar on Gone for Good
Chart success
Chutes Too Narrow was ranked 83 on the Billboard 200 in November 2003 and lasted 6 weeks.
reception
Chutes Too Narrow was voted number 91 of the best albums of the 2000s by Slant Magazine and number 46 by Pitchfork Media . Allmusic praises it: “ Chutes Too Narrow may appear as light and ephemeral as the fluff of a dandelion or a snowstorm blowing in the wind flies, but its direction promises even more good things from The Shins. "(" Chutes Too Narrow might seem as light and fleeting as dandelion fluff or snow flurries blowing in the wind, but its direction promises even more good things from the Shins. " )
The titles Gone for Good and Those To Come were used in the soundtrack for the comedy Reine Chefsache by Paul Weitz .
Web links
- Chutes Too Narrow at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ The Shins Album & Song Chart History. In: billboard.com. Retrieved December 8, 2011 .
- ↑ Best of the Aughts: Albums. In: Slant Magazine. Retrieved October 1, 2011 .
- ^ The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 50-21. In: Pitchfork Media. Retrieved October 5, 2011 .
- ↑ Heather Phares: Chutes Too Narrow - The Shins. In: allmusic.com. Retrieved December 8, 2011 .