The Shins

The Shins began in 1997 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as a side project of Mercer (previously of Blue Roof Dinner) and Neal Langford, both members of the lo-fi musical group Flake (formed in 1992). By 1999, Flake (now Flake Music) had disbanded and its former members became The Shins. (The name was based on a fictional family in the Broadway show The Music Man, a favorite of Mercer's father.) The band released two 7" singles on Omnibus — "Nature Bears A Vacuum" (1998) and "When I Goosestep" (2000) — and embarked on a tour with Modest Mouse. During the tour, they were met in San Francisco by a Sub Pop representative, who eventually offered to release their debut album. The Shins' first album...

Ringtones

Album Wincing the Night Away - 2007

Black Wave
Sea Legs
Australia
Girl Sailor
Turn On Me
Phantom Limb
Sleeping Lessons
Red Rabbits
Pam Berry

Album Fighting In A Sack - 2004

Fighting In A Sack

Album Oh, Inverted World - 2001

Pressed In A Book
Know Your Onion!
Weird Divide
Caring Is Creepy
New Slang
The Past And Pending
Girl On The Wing
The Celibate Life
One By One All Day
Your Algebra
Girl Inform Me

Album Chutes Too Narrow

Young Pilgrim
Kissing The Lipless
Pink Bullets
Turn A Square
So Says I
Those To Come
Saint Simon
Gone For Good

Other The Shins ringtones

Mine`s Not A High Horse
Split Needles