You gotta hear this one song, it'll change your life I swear

You might recognize the title as a quote from Garden State referring to The Shins. Their new CD Wincing the Night Away has been out for a week and a day now and its excellent. I don't want to steal Leslie's shins review thunder, so this is by no means a review, just commentary.

First I'd like to say that I love the cover design. I have no idea what it is, but it fascinates me. Kinda Dr. Seuss meets blood platelets meets space meets little shop of horrors.

I definitely don't have a favorite song yet since they are all good, but two of the ones that stood out to me were "girl sailor" and "sea legs". Girl sailor more because I like the lyrics and sea legs because i like the tune. I started to wonder if these stood out to me because I was obsessed with water and boats and all that good stuff, but they did have two songs on one 11 song CD about that stuff so maybe it was them that was obsessed.

If any of you know me you know that in reality I am obsessed with it, so I wont try and deny it. But I think it might also be equal parts them. They have another song on the CD called "black wave" and then multiple other songs including "Australia" talks about the ocean. I began to think more about this so I listened to their second CD which Leslie gave me and it also had many songs that mentioned these same topics. So I've come to the conclusion that the shins and I have one very important thing in common, our love for all things water related. (notice how i didn't say water sports b/c that would have been gross)

great, now I have sea legs stuck in my head.