Future Islands release new single For Sure


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

Future Islands performing in London (Alberto Pezzali / Live4ever)




Future Islands have released some new music which could point towards a follow-up to 2017’s The Far Field album.

Samuel T. Herring can be found on the current DJ Shadow track Our Pathetic Age, and all his hallmarks are in evidence here too on For Sure, which in turns features backing vocals from Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner.

Live4ever was witness to The Far Field’s touring when it reached Manchester in November 2017, finding songs like In the Fall and Cave ‘alternating wildly both in speed and chaos’. “One minute they’re tempered, barely constrained and emotional, the next they’re manic, wild-eyed and intense,” the review reads. “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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