A Sleep & A Forgetting is leadman Nicholas Thorburn's "interpretation of soul music."
Islands have announced a new album.
A Sleep & A Forgetting will be released February 14 via Anti-Records.
Leadman Nicholas Thorburn, previously of The Unicorns, explains (via Anti-'s website), "This album is far more personal than any I've made before. 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 of Valentine's Day."
The album is the follow-up to 2009's Vapours. It was produced by Thorburn and fellow Islands member Evan Gordon, and according to Anti-, "recorded live with hardly a single overdub. It's a stripped down process and beautifully understated sound which only reinforces the confessional content of the lyrics."
Thorburn added, "The sound is really my interpretation of soul music," and as the late Link Wray once said, "Soul music is pain."
See the tracklist below:
A Sleep & A Forgetting
01 In a Dream It Seemed Real
02 This Is Not a Song
03 Never Go Solo
04 No Crying
05 Hallways
06 Can't Feel My Face
07 Lonely Love
08 Oh Maria
09 Cold Again
10 Don't I Love You
11 Same Thing
Islands have announced a new album.
A Sleep & A Forgetting will be released February 14 via Anti-Records.
Leadman Nicholas Thorburn, previously of The Unicorns, explains (via Anti-'s website), "This album is far more personal than any I've made before. 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 of Valentine's Day."
The album is the follow-up to 2009's Vapours. It was produced by Thorburn and fellow Islands member Evan Gordon, and according to Anti-, "recorded live with hardly a single overdub. It's a stripped down process and beautifully understated sound which only reinforces the confessional content of the lyrics."
Thorburn added, "The sound is really my interpretation of soul music," and as the late Link Wray once said, "Soul music is pain."
See the tracklist below:
A Sleep & A Forgetting
01 In a Dream It Seemed Real
02 This Is Not a Song
03 Never Go Solo
04 No Crying
05 Hallways
06 Can't Feel My Face
07 Lonely Love
08 Oh Maria
09 Cold Again
10 Don't I Love You
11 Same Thing
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