The Shins returned to the stage last weekend, playing festival slots at End of the Road and Electric Picnic, plus a show at London’s Village Underground.
During those shows, James Mercer and co. took the opportunity to debut two new songs from an upcoming fifth album.
With a new release due out in early 2017, the group gave first plays to ‘Dead Alive’ and ‘Rubber Balls’(!), and you can watch fan-shot footage of both tracks below.
Check out the setlist from the Village Underground show:
Kissing the Lipless
Phantom Limb
Girl Inform Me
Dead Alive (new song)
Mine’s Not a High Horse
Saint Simon
Gone for Good
Rubber Balls (new song)
Australia
The Rifle’s Spiral
Caring is Creepy
Sealegs
Sleeping Lessons
Young Pilgrims
New Slang
So Now What
Simple Song
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