This indie quartet from NYC make some beautifully crafted richly melodic precision pop with the four songs here. Nice harmonies, edgy, energized, and though muscularly supple they aren't pushing any aggressive bullshit stance, which makes them feel and sound, anachronistically level headed, and refreshingly life sized. Somewhere between the Association, the dB's, and the Shins? Maybe a cheerful young American answer to the early Smiths? - Dream Magazine

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This is a CDep by NYC's The Isles (Benjamin Haberland, Chris Bordeaux, Andrew Geller, Tim McCoy). It's been a good stretch of success for the New York foursome, with their debut album Perfumed Lands ("A slow burn album for all seasons..." (8/10) --NME) prompting positive reviews, and so it's no surprise they want to extend it for as long as possible. The new single "Summer Loans" has an unmistakably East Coast groove but such an intrinsically familiar tapestry of woven guitar parts and vocal melody, you'll...   [ read more ]

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Potentially the biggest album released to date on Manchester's Melodic label, The Isles' debut album Perfumed Lands has finally been put to bed in their hometown studios of Action Jackson. For these four twenty-something New Yorkers either have the capacity to bend time and space or appear to have been born in the wrong time and place. Because although their sound is very definitely in the now, it's almost as if they began writing while surrounded by the cream of British '80s pop, fell into a deep sleep, a...   [ read more ]

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