Pitchfork

[Posted Friday, September 12th, 2003 02:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]

Micah C. Harding and Ashford Tucker report:
According to their website, the friendly fellers at Sub Pop are set to drop a single for the Shins' "So Says I" on September 23rd. The single is drawn from the Phil Ek-aided and long-awaited Chutes Too Narrow and will be fortified with exactly one new song and exactly one alternate version of an album cut ("Gone For Good," previously known as "A Call To Apathy")-- a puzzling phenomena considering the album's running time is barely thirty-four minutes, and the band had two years to create it. But, presumably for artistic reasons, the additions to "So Says I" suit the single just fine. Tracklist:

01 So Says I
02 Mild Child
03 Gone For Good [alternate version]

"Gone For Good" is also the song the Shins can be seen performing in their basement studio on the group's official website in cinema-verite quality QuickTime. And speaking of cinema verite, the salty badasses at Pitchfork have learned that the band have completed a "making of"-type documentary about the creation of Chutes. Call me a big fat Brian Wilson-for-brains, but I'd like to see this in stores. There are currently no plans to release the documentary-- at least yet, anyway, according to sources at Sub Pop.

A tracklist for the new album and a host of spanking new tour dates for Albuquerque's favorite model-dating, lap-dance loving pop band can be accessed through our previous story linked below.

In other news, guitarist/bassist Dave Hernandez has signed back on with the band. IN BLOOD! Hernandez, also a member of the schizo west-coast punk outfit Scared of Chaka, is an old pal who played on the Shins' 2001 single/ McDonald's commercial "New Slang."