A Sleep & a Forgetting
- Islands
- Band Name: Islands
- Record Label: Anti / Epitaph
- Release Date: Feb 14, 2012
- Summary: The fourth album for the Canadian pop-rock band was written while singer Nicholas Thorburn was recovering from a breakup in Los Angeles.
- Record Label: Anti / Epitaph
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Rock, Indie Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 8 out of 15
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Mixed: 7 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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Feb 22, 201280Thorburn anchors every note, every contribution with a personal outpouring of emotion and heartbreak, the likes of which we've never seen from him before.
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Feb 15, 201279It's the most cohesive-- and, possibly, the out-and-out strongest-- Islands record yet.
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Mar 16, 201260Asleep and a Forgetting is [mellifluous], only crankier and somehow more personal than anything previous, soaked in the moody nuances of laughter and forgetting, memory and momentary lapses of such. [No. 85, p.55]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 1 out of 1
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Mixed: 0 out of 1
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Negative: 0 out of 1
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