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Indie rock fans take a shine to the regrouped Shins

By Sarah Rodman

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 07, 2012

Both the new Shins and the new Shins material got a good workout — and a warm welcome — Friday night at the Citi Wang Theatre. Since the release of the pop-rockers’ third album, 2007’s “Wincing the Night Away,” singer-songwriter James Mercer has surrounded himself with a complementary new band of musical conspirators. The group dove into tunes from the recently released “Port of Morrow” with a cheerful vigor, with Jessica Dobson in particular supplying a crisp bite to the proceedings with her economical but stinging guitar work.

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