flowers for valentines day - Islands Giving Fans a Valentine's Day Treat With New Album and Tour

In support of their third Anti-Records release,  A Sleep & A Forgetting, modernist pop band, Islands, will embark on a tour spanning from Montreal to Vancouver. Islands and their charismatic front man-songwriter Nick Thorburn, have become increasingly renowned for their ever evolving brand of adventuresome pop music.flowers for valentines day The album drops February 14th via Anti-Records.

The new album was produced by Thorburn and fellow Islands member Evan Gordon in less than two weeks, the 11 songs recorded live with hardly a single overdub. It’s a stripped down process and beautifully understated sound which only reinforces the confessional content of the lyrics.

“This album is far more personal than any I’ve made before,” Thorburn explains. “I left New York and came to Los Angeles and there was this piano where I was staying. And that’s where I wrote these songs. The record deals with loss, with memory and forgetting and with dreaming.”

The new record offers all the shimmering sonic textures and irresistible melodies that have come to define Islands enduring appeal, but there is a deeply personal cathartic undercurrent to the songs, transforming personal unrest into affecting and soulful pop music.

Feb. 27 – Montreal – Cabaret du Mile End
Feb. 28 – Toronto – The Music Gallery
Mar. 3 – Winnipeg - West End Cultural Centre
Mar. 5 – Edmonton – The Haven Social Club
Mar. 6 – Calgary – Ironwood Stage and Grill
Mar. 8 – Vancouver – The Rio Theatre
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