The Shins » Fall of '82

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The Shins – Fall of '82 (3:48)
on the album Port of Morrow

The song features a Herb Alpert-esque trumpet solo by Nathaniel Walcott, who is a member of the band, Bright Eyes. “I really wanted a horn part there,” Mercer said during a NPR interview. “We were thinking about bands like Steely Dan and Chicago, the sort of classic pop of the ’70s. I thought that’d be the perfect surprise instrumental break. More…

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