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- Summary: The indie rock band reworks its 2017 album Heartworms by playing them the opposite way such as loud songs being played quieter or slow songs being played faster.
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- Record Label: Columbia
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop
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Positive: 1 out of 6
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Mixed: 5 out of 6
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Negative: 0 out of 6
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Jan 29, 2018It’s a pleasant oddity in the Shins’ catalogue—neither a dazzling reinvention of the original release (see: Massive Attack V Mad Professor’s towering No Protection) nor a hastily-assembled insult to the band’s creative work .
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Jan 29, 2018Die-hard fans may appreciate the musical switcheroos on The Worm's Heart, but others may not understand the need for them.
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Jan 29, 2018It’s neither better nor worse than Heartworms--which itself was very much a mixed bag--but the pleasures come in different places.
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Jan 29, 2018It is, when it comes down to it, a sloppy gimmick. One, admittedly, that has a few choice moments, but which would have been much better served if Mercer had streamlined all his ideas down in the first place instead of treating these songs as malleable, never-finished opuses.
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Feb 20, 2018The Worm's Heart is a curiously pointless release and coming so soon after the first version does it no favors at all.
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Jan 29, 2018Oh, inverted world, you’re not as much as fun or as interesting as we hoped.
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Positive: 1 out of 3
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Mixed: 1 out of 3
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Negative: 1 out of 3
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Feb 19, 2018
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Feb 12, 2018
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Mar 19, 2020
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