Arm's Way - Islands
  • Band Name: Islands
  • Record Label: Anti
  • Release Date: May 20, 2008
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  • Summary: The sophomore album for the Montreal-based indie group is its first on the Anti- label.
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  1. Positive: 19 out of 25
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  1. It is a towering, complex achievement and startling progression to boot.
  2. As a fully realized, bombastically confident artistic statement, Arm's Way is Nick Thorburn's "69 Love Songs." Hereafter we will only seek to understand him according to his own pop- and violence-addled logic, mapped perfectly on this thrilling album.
  3. Arm's Way is the sound of a band forgetting what made them fun and highly listenable and instead grasping for a grand statement that is far beyond their reach.

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