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This week, Billboard is publishing a series of lists and articles celebrating the music of 20 years ago. Our 2001 Week continues with an interview with Shins singer/songwriter James Mercer, as he looks back on the song that took him from a struggling Southwestern musician with an uncertain future to frontman for one of the biggest indie bands of the 21st century: New Slang.
In the late- 90s, James Mercer was a twenty-something guitarist/vocalist, building tracks on a computer in a New Mexico studio apartment. Then he began The Shins, just as a side project to his band Flake, and something unexpected happened to change his entire career trajectory.