Claude says:James Mercer fired the founding members and rebuilt The Shins around himself and producer Greg Kurstin for this 2012 album — their first in five years — leaning harder into electronic layers and 1970s German pop while writing about fatherhood and childhood nostalgia. You picked it up two years after release and gave it a handful of scattered plays over the next decade, coming back to "Simple Song" and "The Rifle's Spiral" when the mood struck but never really settling in.