It’s been five years since we got new music from the early 2000s Canadian indie rock champions Islands. Nicholas Thorburn and company will release their new album Islomania on June 11th via Royal Mountain Records.
Based on the most recently shared single “Carpenter,” the band hasn’t lost a single step along the way. It’s an immaculately crafted delightful indie pop gem that has a glam 80s jangly spirit about it that hooks you in unabashedly and charmingly. Thorburn just knows how to write a clever unorthodox hook, man.
Enjoy a stream of “Carpenter” below, along with a quote from Thorburn about it’s creation.
“This one was an early song that I demoed at home as a little throwaway. Unfinished, it sat on a folder on my computer collecting digital dust until I stumbled upon it many months later. I had completely forgotten about it and listening back, I was totally caught off guard. It sounded like I was singing someone else’s song. I was excited so I set about finishing it immediately. Once I’d tidied it up, I eventually brought it to producer Patrick Ford, who helped the band fine-tune the push and pull with regards to the quiet/loud sections. Lyrically it’s like a “woulda coulda shoulda” sliding doors-type imagining.”
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