Claude says:The Shins' third album was tracked in James Mercer's basement, Phil Ek's Seattle home, and with Joe Chiccarelli in Oregon City — a Grammy-nominated record that closed out their Sub Pop contract. You picked it up a few months after its January 2007 release and spent the most time with it that summer and fall, then let it sit quiet for over a decade before revisiting it in the early 2020s and again this spring.