Following their warmly received Halloween gift to fans in the form of 'Dead Alive', The Shins have just released their fifth studio album, 'Heartworms' via Aural Apothecary/Columbia Records.
'Heartworms' is, as always, entirely written by James Mercer. However, with the exception of 'So Now What' (produced by Richard Swift), Heartworms is the first Shins album to be self-produced by Mercer since Oh, Inverted World in 2001.
Heartworms features Mercer's most diverse lyrical palette to date: From fictional character sketches (“Fantasy Island,” “Rubber Ballz”), autobiographical accounts (“Mildenhall”), to first single 'Name For You', a resounding call for female empowerment inspired by Mercer’s three daughters. Watch the video here: