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Future Islands Preview New Album At House Of Vans Chicago 2/3

... stage”) before co-signing the latter (“We need more truth in this goddamn world”). So, yeah, he was having a moment, but part of that good nature had to do with the new material itself. The Far Field is a total blast, a bath of synths, emotions, and grooves that wouldn’t be out of place on a late ’80 s U 2 record, which means it’s primed for acrobatic theatrics. As such, Herring delivered each track with muscular gusto, cracking open the night with album opener “Aladdin”, a rousing anthem that hit hard with its final sobering lines: “Our love was real/ Our love was real/ It’s to hope/ It’s to dream/ It’s to heal.”. New single “Ran” has already made quite an impression, as hands rallied at all the right moments, specifically when the song shifted into the Bonnie Tyler-esque chorus. Not to dial back to U 2 again, but “Cave” most certainly works off the bass line to “New Year’s Day”, only it’s a total stunner, one of the big highlights off the album — and it’s ...

Austra’s Ear For The Moment

... deity figure, and a biased encounter with the police, which, for some, may have been too many layers covering the “point.” But it’s easy to see why it riled up the American Family Association and other conservative groups: The hot-button issues of their time (and ours)—race, religion, violence, and sex—are mashed up to sexy effect. Related Articles. Erin Vanderhoof. On this album, Austra takes on that general ambition and does it one better. She’s a strong (if unexpected) pop songwriter and singer from the Cocteau Twins school of goth emoting: take a few near-impenetrable lyrics and deliver them like a liturgy in a pained yet beautiful soprano. What results is something much stranger and more malleable than a straightforward narrative approach would yield. Her favorite lyrical trick is repetition: Similar words with a different affect or pitch build throughout a song. What she writes is simple, but the album succeeds because of its attention to musical details. Take “I Love You More Than You Love Yourself,” with the beat continuing a ...

Future Islands Play New Songs At New York's Bowery Ballroom

... frontman’s onstage routine includes pelvic thrusts, power stances, lasso spins and metalcore-esque Cookie Monster growls. He also raps. He’s a one-man hardcore-goofball comedy troupe, which comes in handy when your band decides to open its set with a pair of brand new, unreleased songs. And conveniently enough, it quickly became apparent Future Islands aren't about to fix what wasn't broken on 2014's Singles. Up next came “Ran,” the propulsive single Future Islands used to announce new album The Far Field two weeks back. The crowd's couples, posses, and loners perked up, part from recent familiarity, part because it's a damn good song in any setting. Drum and bass in driving lockstep, Gerrit Welmers’ synth strokes and Herring’s voice soared skyward through what’s actually a sad-sack song about moving on alone. The crowd engaged, Future Islands dug into the back catalog over the rest of the night, while still playing a hefty ...

Syd, Future Islands, Mac Demarco, And More

... That”. Don’t pretend you can deny some fresh Scandinavian pop beats. Rytmeklubben is a four-piece group of club-music producers from Norway, which means when they come together as a live act they are basically algorithmically programmed to make your body sway and your feet happy. Do you even need to be told that they have a hypnotic female vocalist? Of course you don’t, because you already knew it in your bones. —JC. Future Islands, “Ran”. After nearly three years of silence since Future Islands broke into the mainstream with “Seasons (Waiting on You),” and its subsequent viral Letterman performance , Samuel T. Herring & Co. are back with a new single that delivers the type of wistful catharsis the band is so great at conjuring. Herring’s gruff theatricality as he sings, “I can’t take it, I can’t take it / This world without, this world without you,” sounds both stubbornly determined and like he’s mid-sob, making “Ran” a complex salve for any of your ...