7.6
Avg Score
7
Opinions
#6,910
All Time
12
Tracks
“The best synth-pop band of the 21st century finds striking new ground on their seventh studio album.”
“Future Islands are best in yearning banger mode. Although their 2020 album, As Long As You Are, brought instant classic For Sure, it was often dismayingly downbeat – melancholy unrelieved by the consolation of rhythm. Luckily, People Who Aren’t There Anymore is better at dragging its tears to the dancefloor. Here are grownup, weighty ruminations on devotion, sacrifice, separation and Covid, but T”
“Future Islands have had a career a lot like their songwriting: slow burning, quietly consistent, favouring delayed gratification over immediacy. The Baltimore band release albums of measured synth-pop regularly but unhurriedly, in a robustly unique style seemingly removed from the tumble and churn of contemporary pop trends. With three albums already behind them when they garnered national attent”
“As many will be aware, Future Islands somewhat broke the internet with their 2014 Letterman appearance – specifically with vocalist Samuel T. Herring’s infectiously charismatic stage presence. With that performance, the band even baffled Glaswegian comic and James Corden despiser Brian Limond (“When I first saw them… I was worried for the cunt!” he famously declared on his Twitch channel) . And li”
“The Baltimore band’s latest is another emotional tour de force that tests the limits of their long-running sound.”
“Future Islands have long blended moments of bliss and ecstasy with heartbreak. They thrive in this gap: the thoroughline of Baltimore band’s music is that their transcendent, New Wave-inspired songs have a tendency to end with a positive resolution, even if it doesn’t quite look that way in the beginning. The prevailing mood is of self-belief. Having emerged in the early 2010s, some of the quarte”
