Artist Islands
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Aliya Naumoff
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Islands
The Montreal band Islands was born from the ashes of The Unicorns, a college-radio mainstay that effortlessly melded childlike instrumentation with brooding themes and a larger-than-life creation myth. The Unicorns proved a bit too volatile, so frontman Nick Diamonds dissolved the band and formed Islands, taking his old band’s knack for melody and fusing it with rich instrumentation—dueling violins, plenty of xylophone and organ—and a structural complexity that never ceases to surprise. Islands’ 2009 album, Vapours, traffics in threads of disco laced throughout the usual tangled bits and pieces of rock. Diamonds’ involvement in Mister Heavenly—a “doom-wop” collab with Man Man’s Honus Honus and Modest Mouse drummer Joe Plummer—kept him occupied for much of 2011, but he still found time to record a new Islands’ record, A Sleep & A Forgetting, which surfaced last week.
Updated 02/08/2012
Related Just Announceds
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Chicago:
Is it Cera time in Chicago? Mister Heavenly confirmed for TNK 2011
December 16, 2010
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Madison:
Islands at the Memorial Union Terrace
May 25, 2010
Related MusicalWork Reviews
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Mister Heavenly: Out Of Love
August 16, 2011
Related Recaps
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Austin:
Islands at The Parish
July 8, 2010
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Madison:
Islands at the Memorial Union Terrace
July 12, 2010
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Austin:
Mister Heavenly at Scoot Inn
December 14, 2010
