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Oh, Inverted World

by Shins

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All Time

of 455,735

3,121
2000's

of 265,982

342
2001

of 35,059

44

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Overall Rating: 3.0949 Oh, Inverted World is ranked overall as 3.0949 out of 4 stars

Avg. Critic Score: 3.2800 Oh, Inverted World has an avg. critic score of 3.2800 out of 4 stars

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All Music Guide

Beginning with "Caring Is Creepy," which opens this album with a psychedelic flourish that would not be out of place on a late-1960sMoody Blues,Beach Boys, orLoverelease, the Shins present a collection of retro pop nuggets that distill the finer ...more

Rolling Stone

Indie rock's obsession with the Beach Boys has yielded some lovely pop records in the past several years, but even the best (the Apples in Stereo'sFun Trick Noisemaker, the High Llamas'Gideon Gaye) have been a little over-reverent. ...more

PopMatters

Time to bemoan the current state of indie rock again. One of the major problems of the genre today is that it is entirely too self-contained and self-referential. It has no sense of any music outside of its own well-defined parameters. ...more

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Fazed

The Shins Oh, Inverted World may be the best record Seattles Sub Pop Records has ever put out, and its definitely their best release in nearly a decade. After a couple of promising false starts, releasing records as Flake, then Flake Music, ...read the complete review at Fazed

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ShakingThrough.net

On the Shins' debut release, Oh, Inverted World , the Albuquerque, NM, quartet willfully borrows from such notable influences as the Beach Boys, the Byrds and Big Star. While the group's sound is unmistakably mined from the mid-'60s/early '70s power...read the complete review at ShakingThrough.net

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The A.V. Club

An awful lot of acts fall under the big tent of "pop music," but few make music that can't be easily compared to the work of their peers......read the complete review at The A.V. Club

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