Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Austin Chronicle
The Boston Phoenix
Drowned in Sound	9/10
The Guardian
NME	8/10
Pitchfork Media	8.0/10
Q
Rolling Stone
Under the Radar	9/10

Oh, Inverted World is the debut studio album by American indie rock band The Shins, released on June 19, 2001 to critical acclaim. Omnibus Records put out an initial run of vinyl distributed by Darla. Sub Pop Records reprinted the vinyl, but the Sub Pop logo only appears on later pressings.

The album contains the songs "Caring Is Creepy" and "New Slang," both of which appeared in the 2004 film Garden State.

Oh, Inverted World placed at number 35 on the Pazz & Jop critics' poll for best album of 2001. Online music magazine Pitchfork Media placed Oh, Inverted World at number 115 on their list of top 200 albums of the 2000s.

All tracks written by James Mercer.

The Shins

Additional Musicians

"Oh, Inverted World" was also the name of a web series created by Terence Krey. Released in November 2010, it was largely inspired by The Shins music as well as other indie artists such as Arcade Fire and The Decemberists. The 13-part sci-fi web series was a story of four twenty somethings returning home from college to find that the Moon is falling into the Earth. The web series was called by the New York Times a "mumblecore Night of the Living Dead."

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