Music Crush Monday: Future Islands
Future Islands is headed to the Shrine Auditorium on 9/18 and we can’t get enough of the lead track off their new album People Who Aren’t There Anymore, called “King of Sweden.”
The song was recently used in the new FC25 soccer video game played by millions worldwide.
[Left to right: Samuel T. Herring, Gerrit Welmers, William Cashion, Michael Lowry]
Future islands, an indie-synth pop band hailing from Baltimore, has nearly two decades in the industry but is heralding a new chapter with the latest album, People Who Aren’t There Anymore. Where they’ve pursued ever-higher energy anthems in the past, they’ve turned inward this time and unlocked a new level of ferocity. The album delivers some of their most inspiring and heartbreaking tracks by doing the opposite: taking their time, and making each breath, syllable and cymbal crash count.
Co-produced by Future Islands and Steve Wright and mixed by Wright and Chris Coady, the result is a powerful, defining statement from a group of musicians that have made the best work of their career.
Other tracks worth checking out include Theif with music video directed by Ivana Bobic and “Tower” which they performed recently on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
