When the Shins released their debut album, Oh, Inverted World, in June of 2001, they appeared to have emerged from some bizarro Summer of Love haze. They came out of nowhere, or perhaps, as their ...

The Shins will release their first album in five years in March—it's called Port Of Morrow, and it was written and mostly recorded by frontman James Mercer, the only original member left in the band.