Heartworms (album)

Heartworms is the fifth studio album by American rock band The Shins. The album was released March 10, 2017, on Columbia Records. It is the Shins' first studio album in five years.[5] The album was produced by James Mercer.[6] "So Now What" was produced by former band member Richard Swift.[6]

For the Whipping Boy album, see Heartworm (album).
Heartworms
Studio album by
The Shins
ReleasedMarch 10, 2017
Recorded
  • 2014–16
Genre
Length41:44
LabelColumbia
ProducerJames Mercer
The Shins chronology
Port of Morrow
(2012)		 Heartworms
(2017)
Singles from Heartworms
  1. "Dead Alive"
    Released: October 26, 2016
  2. "Name for You"
    Released: January 5, 2017
  3. "Half a Million"
    Released: June 13, 2017[3]
  4. "Cherry Hearts"
    Released: October 31, 2017[4]

Reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic73/100[7]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[8]
The A.V. ClubB[9]
Drowned In Sound[1]
Entertainment WeeklyB+[2]
The Independent [10]
musicOMH[11]
NME[12]
Paste Magazine7.1/10[13]
Pitchfork7.6/10[14]
Rolling Stone[15]

Heartworms, overall, received positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 73, based on twenty reviews.[7]

Accolades
Publication Accolade Year Rank Ref.
Drowned in Sound Favourite Albums of 2017
2017
77
[16]

Track listing

All tracks are written by James Mercer.

No.TitleLength
1."Name for You"3:09
2."Painting a Hole"4:44
3."Cherry Hearts"3:33
4."Fantasy Island"4:46
5."Mildenhall"3:19
6."Rubber Ballz"3:17
7."Half a Million"3:23
8."Dead Alive"3:34
9."Heartworms"2:56
10."So Now What"3:38
11."The Fear"5:25

Charts
Chart (2017) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[17] 16
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[18] 52
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[19] 60
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[20] 36
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[21] 26
French Albums (SNEP)[22] 157
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[23] 61
Irish Albums (IRMA)[24] 18
New Zealand Heatseekers Albums (RMNZ)[25] 2
Portuguese Albums (AFP)[26] 35
Scottish Albums (OCC)[27] 16
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[28] 44
UK Albums (OCC)[29] 19
US Billboard 200[30] 20

The Worm's Heart
The Worm's Heart
Remix album by
The Shins
ReleasedJanuary 19, 2018
Recorded
  • 2014–17
Genre
Length41:26
LabelColumbia
ProducerJames Mercer, Jon Sortland, Yuuki Matthews
The Shins chronology
Port of Morrow
(2012)		 The Worm's Heart
(2018)

In December 2017, the band announced a "flipped" version of Heartworms to be released on January 19, 2018. The album contains the same songs as Heartworms but reinterpreted. According to Mercer, slow songs are played fast, quiet songs louder, fast songs slower and loud songs quieter.[31] The track listing also mirrors the track listing from the first album, but in reverse.[31]

Track listing

All tracks are written by James Mercer.

No.TitleLength
1."The Fear (Flipped)"4:41
2."So Now What (Flipped)"4:18
3."Heartworms (Flipped)"3:09
4."Dead Alive (Flipped)"4:34
5."Half a Million (Flipped)"3:27
6."Rubber Ballz (Flipped)"3:30
7."Mildenhall (Flipped)"4:17
8."Fantasy Island (Flipped)"3:27
9."Cherry Hearts (Flipped)"2:52
10."Painting a Hole (Flipped)"3:10
11."Name for You (Flipped)"4:01

Charts
Chart (2018) Peak
position
New Zealand Heatseeker Albums (RMNZ)[32] 10
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  8. Phares, Heather. "Album Review: The Shins - Heartworms". AllMusic. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
  9. Williams, Matt. "The Shins, Laura Marling, Greg Graffin, and more in this week's music reviews". The A.V. Club. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
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  13. Milo, Jeff. "The Shins: Heartworms Review". Paste Magazine. Retrieved March 17, 2017.
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