Listen Before You Buy

After so many varied albums in the past, what would be the next step for Islands? A folk album? Well, when it’s this good, fuck it, why not?

Islands have only gone and made one of the best videos of the year, to go along with one of the best songs of the year.

Don’t pay attention to the title, it actually is a song.

Buy the album: Amazon | iTunes | Sub Pop Mister Heavenly, a self-described “doom-wop” act, have set high expectations for themselves, capping off their supergroup status with a dreamboat name. Admittedly, it’s hard to object to the divine name with the band’s powerhouse make-up. Man Man’s Ryan Kattner (a.k.a. the eloquent and rowdy Honus Honus) [...]

Electronic and wavy.  That’s how Steel Phantoms’ debut EP kicks off but it’s quickly thrown to the side in favour of melodic jangle-pop. The four-piece are based in Brooklyn and have been playing together for about a year, but they’ve already toured with Active Child and Islands (who made one of my favourite albums of [...]

You’ve no doubt heard of The XX, and if you haven’t, chances are you’ve heard one of their incredibly emotive, sparse, and catchy Post-Punk/New Wave hits from last year.  If you still claim to have heard nothing, then watch the new video for “Islands” below and then you will have heard something. Then you can [...]