Future Islands – Balance & Before The Bridge

25 August 2011

Future Islands

We’ve featured Baltimore’s Future Islands (Facebook/Twitter) on a couple of mixtapes over the years and for the simple reason – they make beautiful electronic influenced pop tunes. And now their back with their new album On The Water – dropping on 11th October on Thrill Jockey.

Before The Bridge, the first single from the album offers that spacious electronic vibe that we all love Future Islands for, whilst at the same time giving a knowing wink to that beautifully British 80s sound. Today we’ve got the bonus of wrapping our collective ears around another track in the form of Balance, with another nod to the 80s scene, a delectable pop delight – I can even hear a little Wham when singer sings “and the the sun will leave the room…that’s all right”. I fucking love this.

[BUY] Future Islands – Before The Bridge on 7″ from Rough Trade

Future Islands – Balance by thrilljockey
Future Islands – Before the Bridge by thrilljockey

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Introducing: The Wilderness of Manitoba

By: Lauren

25 August 2011

In: News & Leaks

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The Wilderness of Manitoba. What a name for a band. Hailing from Toronto, these makers of chamber folk have already rocked (or should that be folked?) their own country and the US with debut album ‘When You Left The Fire’, and now they’re hitting UK soil to release it here too.

Their live expeditions over in the US have so far included support tours with Cloud Cult, Rasputina and Aimee Mann, and they’ve already toured here in the UK too, playing End Of The Road and London’s Camden Crawl in 2010.

The English equivalent is probably a Willkommen Collective band like The Miserable Rich (quite possibly the UK’s premier purveyors of chamber folk), but there’s something tangibly quirky here within The Wilderness of Manitoba, giving them an edge that suggests they’re from a land further afield. This is very un-English, honest, catchy and, well, Canadian.

Watch the video below for a taster of the forthcoming album in the form of lead track ‘Orono Park’. It’s very pretty.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njlRaSrDlz4

Josh T. Pearson announces UK tour and new single

By: Lauren

22 August 2011

In: News & Leaks

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The exceptional Josh T. Pearson has announced details of a new single – ‘Sorry With A Song’ – due for release on October 3rd.

Alongside the announcement of ‘Sorry With A Song’ comes a new run of UK dates including a very special show at the Barbican Centre, titled ‘An Evening with Josh T. Pearson and Guests’.

I was fortunate enough to catch Josh at Green Man Festival this weekend just gone, and he was exceptional. Before his autumn tour begins, Josh will grace the stage of End of the Road Festival in Dorset.

The upcoming live dates are as follows:
Wed 21 Sept Nottingham Glee Club
Thurs 22 Sept Norwich Arts Centre
Sat 24 Sept Cambridge Junction 2
Mon 26 Sept Leeds Brudenell Social Club
Tues 27 Sept Gateshead The Sage
Wed 28 Sept Birmingham Glee Club
Mon 21 Nov Manchester Royal Northern College of Music
Tues 22 Nov Glasgow Oran Moor
Wed 23 Nov Leicester The Musician
Thurs 24 Nov Cardiff The Globe
Fri 25 Nov Exeter Phoenix
Sat 26 Nov London Barbican ‘An Evening with Josh T. Pearson and Guests’