“Album six finds Future Islands at the top of their game”
“The Baltimore indie greats serve up another moving and epic synth-pop endeavor”
“If there’s one moment that Baltimore synth-poppers Future Islands are likely to be remembered for, it’s frontman Samuel T Herring’s brilliantly impassioned rendition of Seasons (Waiting on You) on David Letterman’s TV show in 2014, which rightly became a viral sensation online. On the one hand, as career-defining performances go, it’s infinitely preferable to the Stone Roses at Reading 96, say. Bu”
“The Baltimore synthpop band traverse familiar territory on their sixth record”
“existential bangers from Baltimore’s most eccentric band”
“Over the last decade-and-a-bit, Baltimore-based synthpop band Future Islands have built their sound around the feeling of being lost at sea. References to open water flood their first five albums, paired with disorientating synths that scramble sonic compasses and soul-baring lyrics writ large across the rippling waves, desperately yearning for terra firma. Those Future Islands were filled with si”
