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Seeing The Shins' name on the bill for Charleston, South Carolina's already sold out High Water Festival made us suspect that more new stuff may be following an October 2016 single called "Dead Alive." Now James Mercer & co. have given us something to munch on (via NPR).

Streaming above is a lyric video for "Name For You." The single comes from Heartworm, the group's first new album since 2012's Port of Morrow. It is due on March 10 via Apothecary/Columbia Records. Check out the tracklist below. Call your local record store to see if they'll carry the release.

The Shins — Heartworms Tracklising

01. Name For You
02. Painting A Hole
03. Cherry Hearts
04. Fantasy Island
05. Mildenhall
06. Rubber Ballz
07. Half A Million
08. Dead Alive
09. Heartworms
10. So Now What
11. The Fear

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This article appears in Jan 5-12, 2017.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...