Thursday, November 16, 2006

DOWNLOAD The Shins: “Phantom Limb”

Girl group drums, a few late ooh-ah-ooooh-wah-ooohs.

I don't think it'll change your life, unless Natalie Portman plays it for you, then sleeps with you and gets you off (of all your medications).

Update: Did anyone else notice the irony of a song by a band named after a part of a lower extremity writing about a phantom limb?

Update2: Two clips from Garden State.

1 obvious, but slightly funny:
Garden State Tip

1 horrifying en Español:
Les Shins

DOWNLOAD: The Shins - "Phantom Limb"

And read Pitchfork's review: Pitchfork: Stream: The Shins: “Phantom Limb”: "Stream: The Shins: “Phantom Limb”
Count your arms and legs (especially the bones toward the front of your calves), and slip on those big ol' Natalie Portman headphones, because the Shins have sent some ghost appendage love by way of the Internet.

Fans can now stream new track 'Phantom Limb' from the Portlanders' official website and MySpace page. The number isn't as light (read: catchy) as some of the band's better tunes, but it surely suffices as, at the very least, background music. If you can make it roughly two minutes and twenty-five seconds in, there are some halfway decent 'ooh ee ooh ee ooh's, but even those lose their charm a few runs through. Of course, "

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