James Mercer The Shins

James Mercer The Shins. James Mercer musician and lead singer of The Shins, photographed backstage at the Borderline James Mercer is the lead singer and songwriter of The Shins; the band's latest album is called Heartworms The Shins are an American indie rock band formed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1996.The band is the project of singer-songwriter James Mercer, who has served as the band's sole constant member throughout numerous line-up changes.The band's current line-up consists of Mercer, alongside Yuuki Matthews (bass, keyboards), Mark Watrous (guitar, keyboards, lap steel), Patti King (keyboards), and.

Buying a house in Northeast Portland, "a little Craftsman bungalow in a rough part of town at the time," Mercer and his band began work on the new album The confirmation came in an interview on a new episode of The Story Behind the Song, in which Mercer revealed that at least 17 songs are in the works for his next project

James Mercer of The Shins September YouTube

And over the course of three increasingly rich, and increasingly absorbing, Shins albums (aided, yes, by an unlikely, much-deliberated goose from Natalie Portman), Mercer settled into permanent. The Shins are an American indie rock band formed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 1996.The band is the project of singer-songwriter James Mercer, who has served as the band's sole constant member throughout numerous line-up changes.The band's current line-up consists of Mercer, alongside Yuuki Matthews (bass, keyboards), Mark Watrous (guitar, keyboards, lap steel), Patti King (keyboards), and. James Mercer has confirmed that he's working on a fresh batch of songs which may become The Shins ' first new album since 2017's Heartworms.

James Mercer musician and lead singer of The Shins, photographed backstage at the Borderline. "September, I'm going to buckle down," Mercer told host Peter Csathy. Recording took place in the basement, featuring a setup that was hardly worth boasting about

James Mercer musician and lead singer of The Shins, photographed backstage at the Borderline. James Russell Mercer (born December 26, 1970) [1] is an American singer-songwriter and musician The 2006 edition of The Shins featured, from left, James Mercer, Dave Hernandez, Martin Crandall, and Jesse Sandoval