Islands

[twelvevolt]

Brilliant record and awesome live. Definite step up from the Unicorns.

[morrise18]

Return to the Sea is an amazing record.

I like the Unicorns just as much if not more though.

[the hipoisie]

i saw them a few months ago and didn't like it, the saxophone on every song drove me crazy. i guess it was one of their first shows, though, so maybe they're better now. it also seemed like they were trying too hard to be weird. i was just a record store where they were setting up to do an in-store show, but didn't even feel like staying around to see them for free.

[Tundra]

Saw the Unicorns with Wolf Parade quite awhile back, haven't gotten a chance to catch islands yet...but i heard they were coming to NYC

[morrise18]

April
19-Boston, MA Middle East
20-Providence, RI Living Room
21-Northampton, MA Iron Horse
22-New York, NY Avalon
23-Philadelphia, PA First Unitarian Church
24-Baltimore, MD Ottobar
25-Washington, DC Black Cat
26-Chapel Hill, NC Cat's Cradle
27-Atlanta, GA Drunken Unicorn
28-Pensacola, FL Sluggos
29-Houston, TX Walter's
30-Denton, TX Hailey's

May
01-Austin, TX Emo's
02-Drive Day Drive Day
03-Tucson, AZ Club Congress
04-San Diego, CA Epi Center
05-Los Angeles, CA El Rey
06-San Francisco, CA Slims
07-Drive Day/Off day
08-Portland, OR Loveland
09-Vancouver, BC Mesa Luna
10-Seattle, WA Neumo's
11-Drive Day/Off Day
12-Salt Lake City, UT Kaya Gallery
13-Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
14-Lawrence, KS Bottleneck
15-Omaha, NE Sokol Underground
16-Minneapolis, MN First Ave.
17-Chicago, IL Metro
18-Cleveland, OH Grog Shop
19-Toronto, ONT Opera House
20-Montreal, PQ Le National
22-Ottawa, ONT Babylon
23-Waterloo, ONT
25-Quebec, QC L'Anti

I guess you just missed them.

[bwhitla]

yay portland.

[Robopocalypse]

They were just in Portland about a month ago. They were the opener and didn't play for nearly long enough. Glad they're coming back so soon.

[evanmarnoch]

i've been hearing really good things about them.. i'll have to go pick up their album. what would anybody compare them to (if thats even relevant.. i dunno)?

[Porcellus]

Kind hard to compare, unless you've heard of the unicorns (obvious). Islands kinda have a 'tropical' theme going on in that album, it's wierd, I like it anyways. Gonna go to their show on Monday, portland :highfive:

[morrise18]

The singer name-dropped Paul Simon's Graceland as a big influence on this album. So, sort of a combination of that and the Unicorns with some calypso type stuff thrown in.