Future Islands
www.futureislands.com
FUTURE ISLANDS are a post-wave dance band from North Carolina, now residing in Baltimore. Future Islands play a terse yet passionate music wrought from a stripped back palette. Gerrit Welmers' cartwheeling synthesizer melodies tumble across the austere wilderness of William Cashion's post punk bass pulse, driven ever forward by Erick Murillo's ecstatic feel for rhythm.
Samuel, William and Gerrit had been writing songs together since 2003
in the guise of absurdist party project Art Lord & The Self Portraits,
however it was with the arrival of Erick Murillo on drums that the
band rid themselves of the mythology and masks, taking on a new motive
and the name Future Islands. With the change their sound became
exponentially faster and surprisingly more powerful. They quickly
wrote and recorded an EP entitled 'Little Advances' in time for their
first tour late 2006 and haven't looked back since.
"Follow You (Pangea version)" was recorded during the Pangea recording sessions in April 2006, a month after they recorded "Little Advances." These sessions were recorded by Chester Endersby Gwazda as part of his junior-year final project. In January 2007, Allen Cordell shot and directed a music video for the song. This is the long overdue proper release of this classic Future Islands single.
After you order the 7in and download 'Little Advances', don't forget to pick up a copy of their latest CD 'Wave Like Home', out now on Upset the Rhythm Records!
www.futureislands.com
FUTURE ISLANDS are a post-wave dance band from North Carolina, now residing in Baltimore. Future Islands play a terse yet passionate music wrought from a stripped back palette. Gerrit Welmers' cartwheeling synthesizer melodies tumble across the austere wilderness of William Cashion's post punk bass pulse, driven ever forward by Erick Murillo's ecstatic feel for rhythm.
Samuel, William and Gerrit had been writing songs together since 2003
in the guise of absurdist party project Art Lord & The Self Portraits,
however it was with the arrival of Erick Murillo on drums that the
band rid themselves of the mythology and masks, taking on a new motive
and the name Future Islands. With the change their sound became
exponentially faster and surprisingly more powerful. They quickly
wrote and recorded an EP entitled 'Little Advances' in time for their
first tour late 2006 and haven't looked back since.
"Follow You (Pangea version)" was recorded during the Pangea recording sessions in April 2006, a month after they recorded "Little Advances." These sessions were recorded by Chester Endersby Gwazda as part of his junior-year final project. In January 2007, Allen Cordell shot and directed a music video for the song. This is the long overdue proper release of this classic Future Islands single.
After you order the 7in and download 'Little Advances', don't forget to pick up a copy of their latest CD 'Wave Like Home', out now on Upset the Rhythm Records!
