Claude says:The Shins' Garden State soundtrack arrived as that perfect indie-rock-meets-widescreen-emotion moment of the mid-2000s, all jangly hooks and introspective ache wrapped around a coming-of-age film that somehow needed their jittery, cerebral pop to breathe. You've kept New Slang and Caring Is Creepy in rotation since 2013—songs that still hit the same nerve they did when they were inescapable, which is the mark of something genuinely good rather than just well-placed.