Label: Omnibus
Released: Apr 16, 2002 |
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| When You Land Here It's Time to Return |  |
| > Flake Music |
by Zack Durand |
One of my favorite places to browse at a record store is in those sections at beginning (or end) of each letter, the "A" section or "B" section. That is usually where you find the sweet sweet musical ambrosia of the Gods. Often at your local FYE bands like Fog do not warrant their own section (but should they I ask?).
So on this day that’s what carried me on over to the "F" section at my local cd emporium, and I stumbled across "When You Land Here It's Time to Return" by none other than Flake Music. Being the well-read Shins fan (stalker) I am, I recognized the project immediately as The Shins before they were the present day Shins, basically everyone in Flake Music just switched instruments, and became the Shins. You follow?
It was such a good find for me, being that The Shins are so sparing in their releases, just two albums, 21 songs in all, plus a few out there from b-sides and what not. So this may be the perfect release for the hungry ear eager to consume more of their poptastic rock. An excellent opportunity to flesh out anyone’s Shins discography.
With that said fans that listen to this album can pretty much split themselves into two camps. The ones that will miss the atmospherics, and the synth lines, of current releases, and those that won't miss any of those, but find warmth in the hiss of the lo-fi low budget production. I happen to fall into the latter of the two. If i were to pick any song on the album that really displayed a precursor of what was to come from these guys it would be the song Vantage. Its a chilled out reverb soaked ballad with only two guitars, a bass, and some random chirps here and there.
So again I say pay attention to your Letters when you are scanning the shelves, you may find something that will surprise you.
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