Future Islands - In The Fall

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4...according to our Dave on Thu 08 Apr, 2010.

The first thing I noticed about these chipmunks was the lead singers voice. It sounds so possessed!!I think it's really distinctive. Kinda like the bastard child of Beefheart, Tom Waits and Russ Le Roc. This to some may sound like a match made in hell but rest assured readers ,his vocals make this a really interesting listen. The music is pretty sweet too. It's a fully uplifting, emotionally charged experience. But you could well get your groove on to them while thinking about life and how to live it. All tracks on this fucking sweet cut are ace, my favorite would have to be the second track "Virgo Distracts". Three minutes of sheer pleasure and not even a horrific waistcoat wearing ex snooker player in sight. Its also on a fetching blue vinyl..ohhh sailor...

•   J Gerrit Welmers, William Cashion and Samuel T Herring have been making music together since 2003, and as Future Islands since 2006.
•   Formed as college friends in Greenville, NC, Future Islands relocated to Baltimore after becoming friends with Dan Deacon, an early and avid supporter of the band. They’ve released a handful of CD-Rs, tapes and limited vinyl releases, and their debut album ‘Wave Like Home’ came out on UK label Upset the Rhythm in 2008. They’ve toured extensively in the US and Europe, including the Baltimore Round Robin tours and opening for and performing in Dan Deacon’s large ensemble.
•   Future Islands have mastered their style, which Rolling Stone describes as, “adding punishing heft to simple pop melodies, making blippy electropop sound oddly confrontational”.
•   Future Islands themselves term this “Post-Wave,” taking in part from the emotional fragility of New Wave and coupling it with the power and drive of Post-Punk.
•   Future Islands’ music is spearheaded by Welmers, whose layers of synths and drums create the landscape for Cashion’s punching-strum bass guitar, that pulses and fights, creating noise and bliss. Herring, who has been called “one of the most magnetic frontmen in indie rock,” finds his space in between. Carving through the music, at times, with a whispering croon, and at others, with a deathly wail.
•   ‘In The Fall’ is limited to 1,000 copies worldwide and is pressed on 150 gram translucent blue vinyl packaged in a full color LP jacket with free MP3 download coupon.
•   The EP’s title track ‘In The Fall’ features Katrina Ford from the band Celebration •   Future Islands also recently collaborated with No Age and Victoria Legrand of Beach
House.
•   All four songs on In ‘The Fall’ are exclusive to this release.
•   Future Islands will follow up ‘In The Fall’ with their highly anticipated full-length ‘In Evening Air’.
•   ‘In The Fall ‘design work handled by the Post Typography team (Double Dagger).

Tracklisting:

Tin Man (Extended Version) * Virgo Distracts * In The Fall (Featuring Katrina Ford) * Awake & Dreaming

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