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- Summary: The fourth album for the Canadian pop-rock band was written while singer Nicholas Thorburn was recovering from a breakup in Los Angeles.
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- 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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| Hallways | |
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| wait to get to your room hallways always waiting feels like I've been waiting for days in these hallways wait x 9 walls cave turns refuse to... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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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, 2012Thorburn 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, 2012It's the most cohesive-- and, possibly, the out-and-out strongest-- Islands record yet.
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Feb 15, 2012The album is a bit of a departure for Islands in sound and even more so in content, but rather than a misstep, A Sleep & A Forgetting fits neatly within the band's catalog.
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Feb 14, 2012Anyone with a little distance from their own pain will find much to admire in the honesty and craft of the album.
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MagnetMar 16, 2012Asleep 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]
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Feb 21, 2012It gets a bit boring, a bit sleepy, and altogether, it's a bit forgettable.... But, you know? It sounds good doing it. That has to count for something.
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Feb 13, 2012This is mildly composed, generally genial pop, with a few good hooks and ideas scattered throughout.
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Mixed: 1 out of 1
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Apr 26, 2012
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