Caring Is Creepy 2. One By One All Day 3. Weird Divide 4. Know Your Onion 5. Girl Inform Me 6. Cellbate Life 8. Girl On The Wing 9. Your Algebra. The Shins' OH, INVERTED WORLD is an album that is accessible, but my appreciation for it grows with repeated listenings. The band has a way of creating music that, at first glance, appears to be simple.

Jacob Cohen
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Oh, Inverted World

Studio album by

Released

June 19, 2001

Recorded

2000–2001

Genre

Length

33:31

Label

Sub Pop

Producer

James Mercer, The Shins

The Shins chronology

When You Land Here, It's Time to Return
(1997)

Oh, Inverted World
(2001)

Chutes Too Narrow
(2003)

Oh, Inverted World is the debut studio album by American indie rock band The Shins, released on June 19, 2001 to critical acclaim. Omnibus Records put out an initial run of vinyl distributed by Darla. Sub Pop Records reprinted the vinyl, but the Sub Pop logo only appears on later pressings.

The album contains the songs 'Caring Is Creepy' and 'New Slang,' both of which appeared in the 2004 film Garden State.^[1]

Reception[edit]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[2]
The Austin Chronicle	^[3]
The Boston Phoenix	^[4]
Drowned in Sound	9/10^[5]
The Guardian	^[6]
NME	8/10^[7]
Pitchfork	8.0/10^[8]
Q	^[9]
Rolling Stone	^[10]
Under the Radar	9/10^[11]

Oh, Inverted World placed at number 35 on the Pazz & Jop critics' poll for best album of 2001. Online music magazinePitchfork placed Oh, Inverted World at number 115 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.^[12]

Track listing[edit]

All tracks written by James Mercer.

No.	Title	Length
1.	'Caring Is Creepy'	3:19
2.	'One by One All Day'	4:08
3.	'Weird Divide'	1:57
4.	'Know Your Onion!'	2:28
5.	'Girl Inform Me'	2:19
6.	'New Slang'	3:49
7.	'The Celibate Life'	1:49
8.	'Girl on the Wing'	2:48
9.	'Your Algebra'	2:22
10.	'Pressed in a Book'	2:54
11.	'The Past and Pending'	5:21

Japanese Bonus Track
No.	Title	Length
12.	'Sphagnum Esplanade'	4:20

Personnel[edit]

The Shins

James Mercer - vocals, guitars, keyboards, xylophone, autoharp, programming, harmonium, percussion, harmonica
Marty Crandall - keyboards
Neil Langford - bass
Jesse Sandoval - drums, percussion

Additional Musicians

Dave Hernandez - bass line design and performance on 'New Slang'
Melanie Crandall - cello on 'Your Algebra'
Neils Galloway - French horn on 'The Past and the Pending'

References[edit]

Jacob Cohen

^Garden State (2004) - Soundtracks IMDb - Garden State
^Phares, Heather. 'Oh, Inverted World – The Shins'. AllMusic. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
^McCord, Jeff (August 3, 2001). 'The Shins: Oh, Inverted World (Sub Pop)'. The Austin Chronicle. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
^Wood, Mikael (January 24–31, 2002). 'The Shins: Oh, Inverted World (Sub Pop)'. The Boston Phoenix. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
^Butler, Chris (July 31, 2001). 'Album Review: The Shins – Oh, Inverted World'. Drowned in Sound. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
^Simpson, Dave (May 24, 2002). 'The Shins: Oh, Inverted World (Sub Pop)'. The Guardian. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
^'The Shins: Oh, Inverted World'. NME: 35. May 18, 2002.
^Kearney, Ryan (June 30, 2001). 'The Shins: Oh, Inverted World'. Pitchfork. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
^'The Shins: Oh, Inverted World'. Q (190): 119–21. May 2002.
^Eliscu, Jenny (July 24, 2001). 'Oh, Inverted World'. Rolling Stone. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
^'The Shins: Oh, Inverted World'. Under the Radar. Archived from the original on August 4, 2007. Retrieved November 11, 2015.
^Pitchfork staff (September 28, 2009). 'The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 200-151'. Pitchfork. Retrieved October 1, 2009.

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