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When I started The Shins, it really was just me, alone, but it was still The Shins. I was totally recording stuff and writing songs as The Shins and all of that. So the beginning inception of the whole thing was some sort of a lie, I guess.

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I’ve never been one to think it was cheating to sample this or to loop the drum part there – I’ve always done that. Even using four-track cassette recorders, I was always doing whatever I could to make it as good as I could.

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I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.

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May 2, 2024

I know that there are a lot of sort of silly things that one thinks as a music listener about bands. I am a fan of many bands.

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May 2, 2024

I’ve never been one to think it was cheating to sample this or to loop the drum part there – I’ve always done that. Even using four-track cassette recorders, I was always doing whatever I could to make it as good as I could.

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