Indie band The Shins have continued to hint and tease their fans with the prospect of new music, as is increasingly the norm for bands these days; seemingly gone are the days of having heard nothing of an album prior to its release!
Since being founded in 1996 The Shins have released four studio albums, not too many going by today’s standards so the prospect of a fifth album is exciting news! The Shins’ last release came in 2012 with ‘Port of Morrow’, released to critical acclaim, with critics regarding it as their best work yet.
However their last piece of music was the song ‘So Now What’, which was written and released for the 2014 Zach Braff film ‘Wish I was Here’. I mention Zach Braff as he has often collaborated with The Shins before in the past; in particular people might mainly know The Shins from Braff’s directing debut ‘Garden State’ in 2004, wherein the song ‘New Slang’ had a significant part to play.
Listen to ‘New Slang’ below:
But back to the topic on hand; The Shins posted a brief teaser of what we can only imagine is a single on their upcoming fifth album on Instagram, see it and listen to it below:
Hopefully we will have more news to tell you in the upcoming weeks as we cover The Shins eagerly anticipated fifth album. It is refreshing to see them back as a band after lead man James Mercer left the band in between albums ‘Wincing the Night Away’ and ‘Port of Morrow’.
