Islands

There has been a bit of a post drought around here lately, which our team of Superfluism analysts believe was caused by a combination of solar flares, sharp rises in grain prices on the global market, and electoral irregularities in Lake County, Indiana. Not to worry, we believe we have ironed out the kinks.


Montreal, Quebec's Islands have a new album called "Arm's Way" coming out soon, unless you have the internet, in which case it is already available. If you don't have the internet, but are reading this anyways, that's strange.

The last Islands album "Return to the Sea" was eclectic, a little rough around the edges, poppy, and a pretty darn good album. I've only listened to the new one a few times so far, but it sounds like there's been a fair amount of stylistic maturation. The song structures are much more involved, and occasionally tread pretty close to full out prog-rock territory. It is also super-produced, with tightly packed layers of instrumentation on just about every track. "Pieces of You" is a good example - it has bass clarinet. Sweet. Also, the song title is an intentional homage (?) to the Jewel song of the same name, only the pieces in this song are literal pieces of people, which makes this song considerably creepier than most of the Jewel catalogue.