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- Summary: The third album features the return of founding member, Jamie Thompson.
- Record Label: Anti
- Genre(s): Indie, Rock
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| I've put on, something you can't switch off I hope I don't cry But I know I will And you know how it feels On the north side, on the south side They... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Each maintains a newfound cool, which must be the result of Islands’ principal dudes realizing that they could live without one another, but that they’re far deadlier songwriters together.
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This whole album is good, just know that up front.
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Vapours benefits from its willingness to engage its detractors, tighten up its muscles, revel in the strengths of its songwriting and show yet another angle to the music of Islands.
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Where "Arm’s Way" was mostly excess without limit, Vapours is tightly-controlled, yet still roiling beneath the surface.
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Though there is an overall whiff of the 1980s about Vapours, it sidesteps the traps of either sounding trendily vintage or indistinguishable from the rest of today's Reagan-era impostors. It works best, however, to think of the album as a return to "Return to the Sea," only, as its title suggests, in a hazier, less opaque form.
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Showing more than a trace of the bombast of Arm's Way, a couple of songs like 'Drums' and 'Shining' collapse under their own weight and are the only things that keep Vapours from being Islands' best work. Still, this is a welcome return to form for the band.
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Under The RadarVapours doesn't offer listeners much of anything new. [Fall 2009, p.64]
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