Future Islands - Balance by thrilljockey

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Najnowszy album Future Islands to najambitniejsza i najbardziej dojrzała produkcja formacji sięgającej w nowe rejony neo-romantic, chillwave i czystego avant-popu. On The Water przepełniona jest analogowymi brzmieniami syntezatorów i automatów perkusyjnych w powłoce niezaprzeczalnie chwytliwych melodii. Całokształtowi produkcji na pewno pomogły najnowsze dodatki w ich zestawie instrumentarium w postaci skrzypiec, wiolonczeli, marimby czy field-recordingu.

Future Islands' romantic synth sound scales new heights with On the Water, the Baltimore trio's most ambitious and fully realized statement yet. Built around a song cycle exploring love, loss, and memory, their latest album finds the band continuing to deliver pounding rhythms, swelling melodies, and undeniable hooks - but finding new ways to probe inner space and tug at hearts.

Convening in March 2011 in Elizabeth City, NC's historic, waterfront Andrew S. Sanders House, vocalist Samuel T. Herring, bassist William Cashion, and keyboardist Gerrit Welmers lived together in a space that served as both studio and sleeping quarters. The band used this tranquil retreat to refine their most reflective and mature batch of songs to date, adding new material in the process.

What emerged is a lush yet visceral album about two parallel journeys--one physical and one psychological. On the Water's narrator offers enough detail that their story feels personal, yet open enough that any listener can inhabit each twist and emotional pang as their own.

Travelling on foot, we seek something - an exorcism, an epiphany, an ending. Memories wash across us as in life: non-linear, linked by emotional resonance rather than conventional chronology. And so, the pain of letting go channeled by "The Great Fire" collides with a moment's fleeting serenity in the Eno-esque "Open"; the triumphant rallying cry "Give Us the Wind, " despite its confident declaration of individual strength, re.......
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