Shins - Wincing The Night Away CD reggae "SANGRE Y SOL" is meant

"SANGRE Y SOL" is meant to represent the violence and danger people face crossing the border on foot and the long journey that lies ahead navigating through a society and landscape that are often both inhospitable and harsh

yet no less powerful and transporting

The album turns sound into a working language - textures as diagrams and melodies as signals

sticky cuts composed for the pornographic series Fallen Angel

New York about five miles from Woodstock where Frank was living at the time

Shins - Wincing The Night Away CD reggae "SANGRE Y SOL" is meantTo play music for a long time, you have to surprise the people that love youwhile also surprising yourself. Recorded in singer guitarist James Mercers basement studio, Phil Eks Seattle digs, and in Oregon City with veteran producer Joe Chiccarelli (Beck, U2), Wincing the Night Away is The Shins third full length album. Its also the sound of a band growing up and out. Mercers infectious, indelible melodic style is still at the core, and unfaltering.