The Shins at The Orpheum, Los Angeles, California, Sun 15 Apr
My feelings rarely get this mixed up. Preparing to review The Shins in LA I found my mind was like a martini Bond would never drink: shaken and stirred. You see, I really, really don't feel they've come close to duplicating the magic of Oh, Inverted World which, to me, is the definitive post-millennium indie-rock album...
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No bitchy comment...
...but all their albums are equally brilliant, in my humble opinion, and the fragile, ethereal majesty that defined their mind-blowing debut is seldom far away. If I were to pick my twelve favourite Shins songs to form one album, I'd probably have close enough to four from each record.
By the way...
...completely agree about the improvement in their live performances, they were a rablle the first couple of times I saw them but have been excellent both the times I've seen them this year.