Islands Announce New Album

Art-pop Brooklynites (by way of Montreal) Islands have announced that they will release a new album next Valentine’s Day. A Sleep & A Forgetting will be the band’s fourth album and the third on Anti- Records.

The band, which formed in 2005, has released a series of critically acclaimed pop albums, and this one continues the delightfully weird sound they mastered on their previous album Vapours.

“This album is far more personal than any I’ve made before,” vocalist/guitarist Nicholas Thorburn explained in a press release. “I left New York after the end of a relationship and came to Los Angeles. There was a piano where I was staying and that’s where I wrote these songs. This record deals with loss, with memory and forgetting and with dreaming. I started writing it on Valentine’s Day and it’s coming out on Valentine’s Day.”

The album was recorded over a two-week span and produced by Thorburn and fellow Islands member Evan Gordon. Thorburn further explained that the 11-song album was all recorded live without any overdub to produce a stripped-down sound to highlight the confessional content of the lyrics.

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