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- Summary: Now based in Baltimore, the synthpop trio from North Carolina releases its first album on the Thrill Jockey label.
- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Pop, Electronic
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Top Track
| Walking Through That Door | |
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| As processions fade, New hearts doubt. But you are Golden and no one questions it. But who you fake and how you sound, Asks the best of men To share... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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At the root of all good music is a dying cause to tell a good story and Future Islands take that kind of attitude to heart with In Evening Air; there is nothing dismissible, or close to it, on here.
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What makes In Evening Air a great break-up album is the same thing that makes Teen Dream (2010) a great break-up album: it's not exactly that the lyrics espouse these profound, poetic truths about relationships so much as they use sonic patterns and pretty mundane language to create a sad and disorienting sense of something very familiar disappearing.
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In Evening Air joins the ranks of classic break-up records in its chronicling of past and lost love.
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Drawing from a few different traditions while making them their own, Future Islands prove here to be a well-versed group of wild, woolly storytellers.
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Jan 7, 2011Nothing on In Evening Air quite achieves the slow-burning power of the title track to their In the Fall EP. But as a distillation of Future Islands' textured, unpredictable approach to pop, it's a fine starting point.
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In creating a work which pretty much unfailingly sounds like it could have been made 25 years ago, Future Islands have rejected a lot of current sonic trends--only for their sound to land fashionable-side-up anyway. The tunes are the thing, of course, and the tunes are good.
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UncutWith every element wound so tight, the relentless pace grows exhausting over the long haul. [Jul 2010, p.108]
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May 30, 2013
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