Islands, 'Arm's Way' (Anti-)

A lot of indie-pop bands catch flak for making sickly-sweet songs, but Islands have a different vice: the sweetly sick. Since the early 2000s, Nick Thorburn has been penning morbidly sunny-sounding anthems -- first as a member of the brilliant broken-pop trio The Unicorns, then on Islands’ apocalyptically catchy 2006 debut, Return to the Sea . But with this follow-up, Thorburn eclipses his ......
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