The whole record glimmers faintly even as it embraces the highly conventional guitar-pop format, it feels not quite real. It was a mirage, the New Mexico desert’s best evidence that life is but a dream - and not just that gorgeously cooing, tambourine-tapping, gently strummed sigh that got them McDonald’s money and later soundtracked the 2004 Braff/Portman campaign. The first Shins album, 2001’s Oh, Inverted World, was a collection of effortlessly punchy pop-rock and warm-blooded balladry, but its frayed nerves and plucky resolve were softened by mid-fi reverb haze.
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