The Shins slate new album for 2012

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The Shins have signed to Columbia for the release of their next album.

It’ll be the follow up to 2001’s ‘Oh, Inverted World’, 2003’s beautiful ‘Chutes Too Narrow’ and the 2007 summery excellence of ‘Wincing The Night Away’ that garenered the group a Grammy award, and is expected to land next year.

The band also recently announced some new dates including some festival appearances and a US tour, below – San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival.

Here’s their full list of upcoming dates:

AUGUST
08 Eugene, OR – W.O.W. Hall
09 Bend, OR – The Domino Room
10 Portland, OR – The Doug Fir Lounge
12 San Francisco, CA – Outside Lands Festival

SEPTEMBER
22 Toronto, Ontario – Phoenix Concert Theatre
23 Philadelphia, PA – Popped! Festival
24 Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club

OCTOBER
10 – 15 Pensacola, FL – DeLuna Festival

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