Future Islands remember their 2017 touring on Beauty Of The Road video


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Future Islands performing in London on November 21st, 2017 (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)




Future Islands will forever be able to look back on their epic touring schedule behind this year’s The Far Field album thanks to their new Beauty Of The Road video.

Directed by Jay Buim, it captures the band in various locations as they performed their fifth studio album live. Live4ever was at one of the many shows last month when they arrived at the Manchester Apollo – “live, Future Islands make gratifying and terrifying more than merely similar words,” we observed:

“Songs like In the Fall and Cave alternate wildly both in speed and chaos. One minute they’re tempered, barely constrained and emotional, the next they’re manic, wild-eyed and intense. Musically, they’re always restrained, it’s a suggestive sound that leaves more questions. You feel there is something under the surface that you can’t quite fathom.”

“But it’s Herring’s contradictory performance style that takes the band’s live performances to a sublime place. On Vireo’s Eye he’s emotive, angry. During the beautiful, heartbreaking A Song For Our Grandfathers his melancholy and desperation is clawing, almost uncomfortable. Both are enthralling, powerful moments.”


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