Review: Islands - Islands
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Written at the side of the road after the bands van suffered a tyre blow out three hours from their native Montreal, The Arm makes an interesting opener and lead single for Islands second album Arms Way. Beginning with a powerful refrain, in which quiet picked guitars and Shins-like falsetto vocals mount quickly into the playful beating of toms, courtly picazzo strings and shoot em up arpeggios, Nick Thorburns twee supergroup seem to have developed significantly since their magnificent debut Return to the Sea. Producing a more thickly layered sound, the energy level is much higher, whilst song structures are...
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