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FOGGY NOTIONS presents
FUTURE ISLANDS (Wham City / Upset the Rhythm)
Upstairs @ Whelan’s, Sep 09, Doors 8pm
Tickets €12 plus booking fee from WAV Box-Office (Lo-Call 1890 200 078), City Discs, Sound Cellar, www.tickets.ie, Ticketmaster outlets nationwide
“Happy, happy hooks, wiry dance grooves.” – Village Voice
Fast becoming the most meaningful band of Wham City's offspring, Future Islands are masters of marrying upbeat songs with soul searching lyrical content.
Future Islands are a new-wave dance band from North Carolina, now residing in the fertile "music capital of awesome", Baltimore. They play a terse yet passionate music wrought from a stripped back palette. Gerrit Welmers' cart-wheeling synthesizer melodies tumble across the austere wilderness of William Cashion's post-punk bass pulse, driven ever forward by ecstatic electronic rhythms.
Perhaps the most striking aspect of the band's sound however, takes shape in the form of Sam Herring's distinctive guttural vocal, delivered as Glen Danzig if he ever found himself in a Shakespearean tragedy. At times on its knees at others belted out like it's the end of the world, Herring's vocal lends a raw, emotional warmth to the group's resolute synth-punk bounce.
Samuel, William and Gerrit had been writing songs together since 2003 in the guise of absurdist party project Art Lord & The Self Portraits. Their sound has become exponentially faster and surprisingly powerful. They quickly wrote and recorded an EP entitled 'Little Advances' in time for their first tour late 2006 and haven't looked back since.
Debut album Wave Like Home was created in the summer of 2007, with the help of producer Chester Endersby Gwazda (Dan Deacon) and successfully denotes the uplifting energy of the band's live shows, whilst still staying true to their 4-track hearts.
The album perfectly captures their bittersweet nature. To quote the band, it's an album of "bright morning-times holding hands with dreary afternoons", like finding "shark-infested waters surrounding honeymoon beaches".
We are never that far from fun or despair, valiantly Future Islands are here to remind us of that.
www.futureislands.com
www.myspace.com/futureislands
www.upsettherhythm.co.uk
FUTURE ISLANDS (Wham City / Upset the Rhythm)
Upstairs @ Whelan’s, Sep 09, Doors 8pm
Tickets €12 plus booking fee from WAV Box-Office (Lo-Call 1890 200 078), City Discs, Sound Cellar, www.tickets.ie, Ticketmaster outlets nationwide
“Happy, happy hooks, wiry dance grooves.” – Village Voice
Fast becoming the most meaningful band of Wham City's offspring, Future Islands are masters of marrying upbeat songs with soul searching lyrical content.
Future Islands are a new-wave dance band from North Carolina, now residing in the fertile "music capital of awesome", Baltimore. They play a terse yet passionate music wrought from a stripped back palette. Gerrit Welmers' cart-wheeling synthesizer melodies tumble across the austere wilderness of William Cashion's post-punk bass pulse, driven ever forward by ecstatic electronic rhythms.
Perhaps the most striking aspect of the band's sound however, takes shape in the form of Sam Herring's distinctive guttural vocal, delivered as Glen Danzig if he ever found himself in a Shakespearean tragedy. At times on its knees at others belted out like it's the end of the world, Herring's vocal lends a raw, emotional warmth to the group's resolute synth-punk bounce.
Samuel, William and Gerrit had been writing songs together since 2003 in the guise of absurdist party project Art Lord & The Self Portraits. Their sound has become exponentially faster and surprisingly powerful. They quickly wrote and recorded an EP entitled 'Little Advances' in time for their first tour late 2006 and haven't looked back since.
Debut album Wave Like Home was created in the summer of 2007, with the help of producer Chester Endersby Gwazda (Dan Deacon) and successfully denotes the uplifting energy of the band's live shows, whilst still staying true to their 4-track hearts.
The album perfectly captures their bittersweet nature. To quote the band, it's an album of "bright morning-times holding hands with dreary afternoons", like finding "shark-infested waters surrounding honeymoon beaches".
We are never that far from fun or despair, valiantly Future Islands are here to remind us of that.
www.futureislands.com
www.myspace.com/futureislands
www.upsettherhythm.co.uk
