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Islands Arm's Way Roxy Satarzadeh 6 out of 10 You went to all of their shows. You sent in the $7 needed to join their fan club. You wore their T-shirt everyday straight for a week. And how did they repay you? By breaking up. Such is the relationship saga of many fans of the phenomenal indie rock band the Unicorns. May they rest in peace. As in other areas of life, however, there are never any real ends to relationships, only the beginnings of new ones. Such i... MORE
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Not as readily accessible, eclectic, or catchy as their first album, the Islands new album is, none-the-less, a grower.
I found myself with this track embedded in my skull around 2am in bed last night. That's always either a very good sign, or very bad.
Since I'm posting it for all the world to see, I think you know which it is...
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Perhaps it's my liberal arts background, or perhaps it's that I'm currently reading Rushdie's Satanic Verses, but its difficult to ignore the tones of reincarnation lingering throughout this album. Its title alone conjures common death/rebirth motifs: the ancient mariner, baptism, Odysseus--that irrevocable notion of returning to some salty silence, real or imagined, only to emerge once more; to return to return, etc. And when the parenthetical addition to the title track ... MORE
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I can not get enough of Islands album Return to the Sea.
Usually, after listening to an album to death because it is so great, I don't want to hear from it for another year. Listening to it again will churn my stomach.
But not with this album. Each time I listen, I get excited to hear it over and over again.
This album is a true rarity, and I want to marry it.
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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 to add this to SatisfiedMinds614 post,http://mog.com/SatisfiedMind614/blog_post/... MORE
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Dear MOG, My life has too many personal verses.Yeah, I can't share that on here, but it's too bad I do not have enough time to reflect the good part of my music life on this thing, because that is still going strong. Err . . . let's do a catch-up. This month I saw+A Bouncing Souls & Whole Wheat Bread punk rawk show at the 930 club.Whole Wheat Bread @ Myspace. - - Bouncing Souls where only worth covering my ears for, but WWB was a fun one-time-only show to see. They'r... MORE
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...venuenotsogood. it was like a high school gymnasium with no bar or water even. who picks these places? good show though they were heaps of fun, that diamonds guy is pretty multi-talented.
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On Friday, as soon as I got out of class we drove to Dallas to see Islands play a free acoustic show at Good Records (which is an amazing record store, if you are in the area check it out). They had all just woken up and Nick was wearing shoes that didn't match, but they played extremely well. They did a cover of The Kinks' "Waterloo Sunset" that was every bit as good as the original. We noticed that Alex (one of the violin players) was wearing a Nintendo belt, so we start... MORE
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vs I mean, Islands is cool and all, but to me it just sounds like The Unicorns made more even, normal, and tropically thematic. What made The Unicorns so interesting and enjoyable was the creativity of their, you know, silly flute solos or whatever. Sort of like Fiery Furnaces but with a few more singable melodies. Anyway, I'm not totally writing off Islands and saying forever that The Unicorns were better; this is just a first impression. I've got quite a bit more ... MORE
