Islands



Islands
Ski Mask
Manqué


 ADDS 8/13/13
 DIGITAL ONLY
""Wave Forms" is proof that Islands still have some beautiful, hooky music left in them. It's one of their most concise and confident singles since Return To The Sea, decked out with a sneaky riff and excitable chorus that let us know back in 2006 that the Unicorns' legacy was in good hands." - Pitchfork
"When we first heard word of Islands' forthcoming fifth album Ski Mask, it seemed like mastermind Nick Thorburn was in a quitting mood. Early taste "Wave Forms" found the prolific musician singing, "I won't write another word after today." Thankfully, for the new LP's next share, he's in fighting form. "Becoming the Gunship" is a pleasantly propulsive song featuring march-step drums and drifty malt-shop guitars, not to mention Thorburn's increasingly smooth coo." - Spin
'"If “Wave Forms” let us dip our toes in the water, “Becoming the Gunship” is a full-on cannonball, one that first splashed into the former Unicorns frontman’s dreams. “The first three lines in the song — ‘When it was dark / I was a question mark / Becoming the gunship’ — came to me in a dream,” Thorburn told SPIN. “I woke up and immediately wrote it down and held onto the piece of paper until I could flesh out its hidden meaning into a full song.”' - Paste 
“This record is really about being angry. For better or worse, this record kind of sums up my experience thus far with being in a band. I feel like we’re kind of at a crossroads and this record is kind of me just declaring forfeiture in some ways. Like the third act of a movie—just after it seems like all hope is lost, that’s when the big breakthrough moment happens. For Islands, this is us waiting for the breakthrough moment.  This record is kind of a culmination of all the different things we’ve done over the years. It’s basically a melting pot of all those sounds. So much of this record is about identity—specifically, the quest for finding out your own identity. ... All of these feelings and ideas that have been bubbling up over the course of four previous albums finally came to the surface on this one. This record is like a summation of Islands, everything we’ve ever done distilled into one record. It’s basically an essential introduction to Islands—it’s everything we’ve ever been about.” - Nick Thorburn 


RIYL: Antlers, Unicorns, Mr. Heavenly

TRY: #1, 3, 5, 2

DIRTY #11



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