Saturday 20 August 2011

New music: Future Islands ? Balance

Cerebral and sunny, this is a thinking person's summer anthem

When Baltimore trio Future Islands started working on their third album, On the Water, their influences ranged from Fleetwood Mac and Cocteau Twins to a book about Brian Eno's Another Green World. This mix of the melodic and the cerebral sums up Balance, the album's second single, which dances around an undulating bass line, a gorgeously clipped beat and Samuel T Herring's slightly coarse vocals to create a summer anthem at the exact moment when everyone's given up on summer.


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