RVG has been announced as the national support for Future Islands’ Australian tour. RVG’s debut LP A Quality Of Mercy finds band leader, Romy Vager, trying to move beyond ego, beyond the simple confessional of the songwriter, hoping to find perspective on both world and self. They will join Future Islands for all their headline shows. Production holds have been released for both Melbourne shows and final tickets remain for...
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Future Islands announce a second Melbourne show date, after selling out their first show, following the announcement of their Australian tour dates last week. The Baltimore trio will now also play Tuesday 12 December at The Croxton Bandroom in Melbourne, on top of headline shows in Sydney and Brisbane as well as festival appearances. More details below. Samuel, William and Gerrit began writing new material in January 2016 on the coast of...
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Future Islands have announced Australian tour dates. Following the release of their fifth studio album The Far Field, and having just played at Splendour In The Grass, the band will return for a run of headline shows and festival appearances this December 2017. Full details below. Samuel, William and Gerrit began writing new material in January 2016 on the coast of North Carolina, and continued throughout the year in Baltimore before road-testing...
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Baltimore trio Future Islands have released their fifth studio album The Far Field. Catch the band performing at this year’s Splendour In The Grass. The Far Field refines and builds on the breakthroughs of their 2014 album Singles, written by Samuel T. Herring (vocals, lyrics), William Cashion (bass, guitars) and Gerrit Welmers (keyboards, programming). Future Islands brilliantly expresses the band’s central themes they’ve been exploring for the last decade: that there is power in...
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Baltimore trio Future Islands have released a new single from their upcoming album The Far Field out Friday 7 April. The chest-pounding ‘Cave’ speaks directly to the bruised but brave romantic in each of us. For a unique spin on a lyric video, the band enlisted American sign language interpreter Jonathan Lamberton to sign ‘Cave’s lyrics. Watch it below! The Far Field refines and builds on the breakthroughs of their...
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Future Islands have shared a video for their latest single, ‘Ran’. Filmed by Albert Berney, it centers around the restless vocalist Samuel T. Herring in motion, running through Baltimore and Maryland’s countryside. Watch it below. The single is from their fifth studio album, The Far Field, released worldwide on 7th April via 4AD / Remote Control. It will be available digitally, on 180gm white and standard black LP, CD, cassette formats and...
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Future Islands will release their fifth studio album, The Far Field, on April 7th 2017 via 4AD / Remote Control Records. The Baltimore-based trio’s first single ‘Ran’ can be heard via the link below. The Far Field refines and builds on the breakthroughs of their 2014 album Singles, bursting with undeniable hooks and disarmingly honest lyrics written by Samuel T. Herring (vocals, lyrics), William Cashion (bass, guitars) and Gerrit Welmers...
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