You can listen to the new Shins single, ‘Simple Song’ by visiting their website where it is now streaming.
This is a taster for their fourth album Port Of Morrow which comes out on March 19 and is the follow up to 2007’s Wincing The Night Away.
Both as Emeralds guitarist and solo, Mark McGuire's instrumentals recall the exploratory spirit of early kosmische synth music, while establishing a distinct identity of their own. He talks to Rory Gibb about the development of his technique, writing music and "the psychedelic nature of all existence"
As Paul McCartney reissues McCartney II, Stephen Dalton asks him about the creation of his most forward-thinking record, Delia Derbyshire, potentially collaborating with Gorillaz... and suggests that Macca's next LP should be death metal
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