FLAKE MUSIC (The Shins) [Sue Defender EP] CARGO '96

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1996 CARGO Records HED-723
ORIGINAL 7" EP

"Sue Defender" (45 RPM) b/w "Kreflo" & "Dawn Patrol" (33 1/3 RPM)

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VINYL is NM- beautiful, wol
 COVER is VG+ light wear, wobc

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FLAKE MUSIC:
The fact that Albuquerque's Flake Music left only one full-length release to posterity (1997's When You Land Here, It's Time to Return, Omnibus Records) will be one of the great tragic mysteries of the turn of the century. Why would a band whose shimmering guitar pop held the promise of delivering pop ecstasy on the order of Robert Smith's best (before he got all mopey and maudlin ... well, after he stopped being mopey but before he got mopey again, if you can follow that) disband after releasing one of 1997's best overlooked albums? Why were these four seemingly misplaced southwesterners -- James Mercer, Neil Langford, Jessie Sandoval, and Marty Crandall -- unable to re-ignite the pop torch and revive a musical niche left glaringly unfilled for far too long? Well, they have, they just traded instruments and places on stage and now go by the name the Shins. So that's a plus. As for Flake Music, they've left us with a trail of singles dating back to 1993, culminating in the future pop classic When You Land Here, It's Time to Return. When you find music by this band, it's time to buy it.
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THE SHINS:
A classic guitar pop group almost nine years in the making, Albuquerque, NM's the Shins began in 1997 as the side project of singer/songwriter and guitarist James Mercer's primary band, Flake.Mercer formed Flake in 1992 with drummer Jesse Sandoval, keyboardist Marty Crandall, and bassist Neal Langford; they eventually changed their name to Flake Music, releasing several singles, a well-received album, When You Land Here, It's Time to Return, and touring with friends like Modest Mouse and Califone. 

Soon after the release of When You Land Here, Mercer and Sandovalformed the Shins as a change of pace, playing as a duo with Cibo Matto and the American Analog Set. With Mercer as the Shins' primary songwriter, the group developed a more focused, crafted sound than Flake Music's charming, if somewhat rambling, collaboratory style. Crandall, as well as Scared of Chaka's Dave Hernandez and Ron Skrasek, filled out the Shins' lineup; however,Hernandez and Skrasek left after a short while, due to the success of their main project. By 1999, Flake Music essentially disbanded andLangford also joined the Shins. 

With a couple of 7"s on Omnibus -- 1998's Nature Bears a Vacuum and 2000's When I Goose-Step -- under their belts, the Shins embarked on a tour with Modest Mouse. Sub Pop's Jonathan Poneman caught the San Francisco date of the tour and asked the Shins to contribute a single to the label's Single of the Month Club, which eventually became an offer to release their 2001 single New Slang and their debut album, Oh, Inverted World. The group spent the rest of the year touring with acts such as Preston School of Industry and Red House Painters. The release of singles such as "Know Yr Onion!" and "The Past and the Pending" kept the Shins' success going into 2002, cementing Oh, Inverted World as one of the definitive indie rock albums of the early 2000s and the Shins as one of the style's definitive bands. 

By the time the band recorded their second album, Chutes Too Narrow, Langford was replaced on bass by Dave Hernandez(ex-Scared of Chaka). Chutes Too Narrow was released in fall 2003. The Shins' profile increased drastically the next year when actor Zach Braff included several of their songs in his 2004 movie Garden Statewith one of the main characters going so far as to proclaim that the song "New Slang" would "change your life." Its follow-up, Wincing the Night Away, appeared in January 2007 and sold over a staggering 100,000 copies in its first week. The Shins had never before hit higher than number 86 on the Billboard charts, but the album's sales snagged the guys a debut spot of number two. This was also a record for Sub Pop itself, as the label had only previously peaked at number 79 with the Afghan Whigs' 1996 album Black Love.

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