Future Islands’ In Evening Air is a great album that’s unexpectedly become something I listen to almost once daily. (Actually, maybe me liking smart, shaggy, sorta dark DIY new wave isn’t unexpected.) At the end of March I posted “In The Fall” from the four-song In The Fall 12″, a teaser that also includes an extended (by a minute and change) take on In Evening‘s “Tin Man.” It’s not the best song on the full-length — that award goes to “Long Flight” or the album ending one-two punch of “Vireo’s Eye”/”As I Fall” — but it is a good way to get to know the Baltimore trio a little better. In the Jay Buim-directed video the Islands take the backseat to pretty scene-establishing stills and partying friends helping to document the band’s move form NC to MD, but Samuel T. Herring’s resonating, refined Tom Waits-on-Frog Eyes voice and the synthesized/steel-drummed instrumentation dominates the proceedings from the edges of the firecracker smoke and the live-show shadows.
(Via P4K)
In Evening Air is out 5/4 via Thrill Jockey.
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This album is amazing, between In Evening Air, the Fall EP, and this video these guys have been in constant rotation for me too
this video makes me want to smoke one under a pier. NC beaches are pretty much the greatest
Makes you want to? come on you were smokin’ one when you wrote this
I bet you’re smokin’ one right now
oh yeah – don’t need to smoke it- I am on a natural high cause I live in the NC!
btw love this video!
perfect for summer!
Coffee and cigarettes in a sunny day! This video is amazing!!
This album is an amalgam of awesome things, they’ve been consistently blowing my mind. And their name is based on such inconvenient truth.
This album is an amalgam of awesome things, they’ve been consistently blowing my mind. And their name is based on such an inconvenient truth.
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