Today, the Montreal-bred, Brooklyn-based group Islands premiered the music video to the track “This is Not a Song,” released separately on Monday. The two offer a sneak peak of their forthcoming album, A Sleep & A Forgetting, due out February 14. Check out the video and the track after the jump.
Islands – This Is Not A Song from stereogum on Vimeo.
A Sleep & A Forgetting is the band’s fourth studio album since their 2009 release, Vapours, from the ANTI- label. Their newest will also fall under the ANTI-umbrella.
“This album is far more personal than any I’ve made before,” says lead singer Nick Thorburn. “The record deals with loss, with memory and forgetting and with dreaming.”
Thorburn is coming off of an August album release, this time, with his supergroup side project, Mister Heavenly. The group finished 2010 with string of tour dates in support of Passion Pit, with Michael Cera as touring bassist. Their first album, Out of Love, debuted on August 16.
Listen to “This Is Not A Song” on Pitchfork here, and check out a tracklist for A Sleep & A Forgetting below:
A Sleep & A Forgetting Tracklist:
01. In A Dream It Seemed Real
02. This Is Not A Song
03. Never Go Solo
04. No Crying
05. Hallways
06. Can’t Feel My Face
07. Lonely Love
08. Oh Maria
09. Cold Again
10. Don’t I Love You
11. Same Thing
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