Maybe the third time really is the charm. Canadian indie-rockers Islands released their third album, Vapours, only a few weeks ago and it not only packs quite a punch, but it has also garnered widespread acclaim that it is their best album to date.It's pretty much what you might expect from the band. Islands' drummer Jamie Thompson returned to work on this album, and the band apparently decided...
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Photo by Devyn ManiboNew York by-way-of Montreal’s Islands, the brainchild of front man Nick Diamonds, are on the road hard this fall, with dates stretching across most of North America, in...**Summary** Go to website for downloads, videos & more.
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via Exclaim: Vapours is due out September 22 on Anti-.
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Islands, the project of former Unicorns member Nick Diamonds, has a new LP produced by Diamonds and Chris Coady (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio) due out September 22nd. The title track from Vapours is a bouncy and uplifting ditty featuring a funked-out bass riff and brass section.Islands - "Vapours" (from Vapours)
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A while back we posted that Islands would be releasing a third album, titled Vapours. Strangely, between the time we got that news and now, The Tape heard a rumor of Nick Thorburn’s (known to many as Nick Diamonds) death in a plane crash. After much research, we can safely assume that it never happened, [...]
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Islands dials back the excess just like you like it, you damn hipster rube.Islands have a problem. It's you. And it’s me. Vapours is their sugar-coated, poison response to their detractors. The prog-rockish Arm's Way alienated listeners looking for the band to replicate the Graceland-tinged, pre-Vampire Weekend, genre-hopping of their debut, Return to the Sea. The Arm's Way Era can now be viewe.
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Maybe the third time really is the charm. Canadian indie-rockers Islands released their third album, Vapours, only a few weeks ago and it not only packs quite a punch, but it has also garnered widespread acclaim that it is their best album to date.It's pretty much what you might expect from the band. Islands' drummer Jamie Thompson returned to work on this album, and the band apparently decided...
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An “impromptu” track-by-track review of Nick Diamonds’ latest album-of-the-year contender by Matthew R. Perrine: Islands releases just belong on the open road. To be fair, I’m probably more than a little biased. My first “moment” with the genius of frontman Nick Diamonds was listening to the second Islands outing, “Arm’s Way,” while traversing up and down Highway 53 late last
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Over the course of two albums Montreal's Islands have defied labeling. That doesn't change with the band's third full length Vapours (out this week). Under the guidance of mastermind Nick Diamond, the band deliver another package of pop songs dressed up in electronics.Diamond and company again run the gamut with Vapours. There are plenty of electronically based songs such as "Tender Torture"
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The concept is quite simple: a group of people listen to the same song and give their opinion as if they were in the same room listening to the radio at the same time. Stein said a bus is a bus is a bus, some said it was post-modernism, others said it was unreadable. Duchamp's The Fountain is called art by some, nonsense by others. Stein hit Duchamp in the nose and put it the wrong way up, Stei...
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The sound of the Islands‘ “Don’t Call me Whitney, Bobby” echoes in the Parisian street and neither you nor I am there to hear it.It was filmed in July, sometime in 2006.Seeing the jovial quintet performing there, in the dead of night, in the abandoned street, is powerful. As blood still pumps through my veins, [...]
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ISLANDS on MySPACE . [ MP3 ] "The Arm" [2007's #7: BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN : MAGIC ] [2006's #7: THE PIPETTES : WE ARE THE PIPETTES ] [2005's #7: THE CARDIGANS : SUPER EXTRA GRAVITY ]
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Just a quick note to my fellow moggers about what happened here today. I feel bad that my post made a lot of people angry, and that was never the point of it. I tend to be a pretty positive person, I guess most teachers are. It was an article that I had seen when I woke up in the morning, and thought that it would make for an interesting discussion. Oh well, life lesson learned. Since I forgot ...
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I've been hooked on this CD lately. The musical twists and turns throughout the CD always keep you guessing at what's coming next. If you like the downloads and the track I'm posting, listen to the whole CD by clicking the cover. It really is the kind of CD you should listen to in total, start to finish. The Arm - Long VersionCreeperI Feel Evil (Creeping In)
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Photo by Devyn ManiboNew York by-way-of Montreal’s Islands, the brainchild of front man Nick Diamonds, are on the road hard this fall, with dates stretching across most of North America, in...**Summary** Go to website for downloads, videos & more.
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