Monday 23 January 2012
In a dream it seemed so real
Nick Thorburn is getting ready to serve up a deliciously sweet treat for fans of Islands on Valentine’s Day, 2012: A Sleep & A Forgetting, the first new music from Islands since 2009′s Vapours. Just as Vapours was a departure from its predecessor, Arm’s Way, so too does A Sleep & A Forgetting push Islands’ sound forward into new, uncharted territory. Thorburn’s says the record “…is far more personal than any I’ve made before,” noting that its introspective nature developed naturally after some personal changes in his own life. “I left New York and came to Los Angeles and there was this piano where I was staying. And that’s where I wrote these songs. The record deals with loss, with memory and forgetting and with dreaming.”
With just the two tracks that have premiered so far, it’s clear that the gimmicks and humour of previous albums takes a back seat on A Sleep & A Forgetting, letting emotions and honesty take the wheel for this ride.
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