The Shins, in the UK at least, have always seemed to be one of those groups quite content to boil away on the backburner – always well received – but never quite breaking through to the mainstream. Fey, quirky pop-rock at its best, The Shins have never sounded as well mannered and done up in slick production as they do on Simple Song. The inventive find-and-seek your father’s will premise to the video is brilliantly witty too. A rousing comeback after five years away.
