Last week I wondered if the Shins new album Wincing the Night Away would chart somewhere high on the billboard charts. Everyone was talking about the album, Itunes was giving it up early, and as is the case after every Christmas Holiday where new discs are few and far between, we music fans were hungry for something good, and something new. Well congratulations boys. Wincing debuted at Number 2. [Pretty Ricky got the top spot. But really are you surprised?] A Number two spot ain't all these fellas nabbed. Pitchfork reports:
"According to Billboard, Wincing also topped the Top Independent Albums, Top Digital Albums, Top Internet Albums, and Top Tastemakers charts... "Phantom Limb" is in the top 20 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart as well."
Big ups fellas. Even I enjoy it and I wasn't even a casual fan before, Garden State and its soundtrack notwithstanding. Though am I the only one who sort of tunes out after Red Rabbits, letting the other songs bleed into each other and become nothing more than background music? Guess I see Wincing as being a little top heavy.
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