A Sleep and A Forgetting

Islands' new album A Sleep and A Forgetting continues the band's penchant for crafting adventuresome and infectious state of the art pop music. But this time band leader Nick Thorburn has infused the songs with a personal introspection that gives the record a new and powerful emotional resonance. 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.