Taste, by Islands

Taste

by Islands

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embracethedoom So smooth and full sounding. Pumpkin is what a new aged ballad should sound like! Favorite track: Pumpkin.

mrbpar snowflake, on the first listen, & on the second, caught my ear. a pop candy bordering on the earworm level.

really, though, those lips! Favorite track: Snowflake.

Jonathan Briggs I wish my son was as good as this album

Ramona Donohue Dreamy synthpunk, a good album to listen to on a hazy summer night. Heard about this from The Best Show and really love the entire album. Will have to listen to its companion piece soon. Favorite track: No Milk, No Sugar.

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A nice gent from the UK (Jed @ Post Pop Records) made these, and they look/feel amazing. Weighty. Also notable for being the only format where we agreed to allow these albums side by side. A real collectors totem.

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1.	Charm Offensive 04:27	buy track
2.	Pumpkin 03:02	buy track
3.	No Milk, No Sugar 03:44	buy track
4.	Carried Away 03:02	buy track
5.	It's Heaven 04:27	buy track
6.	Outspoken Dirtbiker 03:44	buy track
7.	Snowflake 03:05	buy track
8.	Cool Intentions 02:49	buy track
9.	The Joke 04:13	buy track
10.	Umbrellas 03:18	buy track
11.	The Weekend 03:33	buy track
12.	Whisper 03:24	buy track

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TASTE, Islands’ 6th record, is a muscular, crystalline affair, with the majority of the music electronic, buoyed by drum machines, programming and arpeggiated vintage synths. The songs still flirt with Islands’ bread and butter; evergreens such as ennui, remorse, and a general disenchantment with the modern world hover over the tracks, with lines like “we got so thrown, we felt lost at home” and “steal a little moment, lose it like you own it”, to hammer home the point. The songs cut a wide swath, however, and also go in directions that Islands has never tackled, including police brutality and white male privilege (!).

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released May 13, 2016

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