A Week With The Shins' "Wincing The Night Away": Day 5

18 February 2007
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Words by Jacob Henneman // Illustration by Abigail Bruley

There are albums that serve as soundtracks to your life. Songs and albums connect events to faces, time periods to memories. Looking back, I scratch my head in bewilderment to how some of these anthems have come to represent certain things; the miniscule and epic moments of my existence. “Walking On Broken Glass” by Annie Lennox and “She Drives Me Crazy” by Fine Young Cannibals bring me back to my childhood experience of grocery shopping with my mom. Every time I enter a grocery store, one of those songs indelibly is resurfaced from the nostalgia factory deep within my brain.

Summer 2005’s soundtrack was Chutes Too Narrow; driving in my air-conditionless car with the windows down. That’s one from my memory I’m less embarrassed about.

I find myself wondering if Wincing the Night Away will be the representative of these past few, and the next few, weeks. The weeks where I saw my home state powdered and frozen, the one where I saw Hillary Clinton speak at a local high school. Then again, she also already has a theme, “Right Here, Right Now” by Jesus Jones, the song with which she was introduced and made her entrance.

In a couple of years maybe I’ll listen to these brilliant songs and the singles of which could be chosen from a pool of a half dozen after the already successful “Phantom Limb.” This album, like The Shins’ previous work, has enough replay ability to leave a little wrinkle in my brain that is rehashed whenever I think of the early part of 2007. In the meantime, pray for me that the soundtrack of this era does not include Jesus Jones.

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