Islands Coming To Bimbo's Next Week

Islands is the post-Unicorns project of musician Nick Thorburn. The band has always gotten good press, but we had been hesitant after seeing the Unicorns self destruct on stage at the Middle East in a haze of drunkenness about five years ago. Well, sometimes you have to look past the prior transgressions, and give a band credit for what's going on now, rather than then. This is one of those times.

After hearing continuous good things about the band and its records, we picked up the new Islands disk In Arms Way. We're glad we did: We like it, quite a bit. It has the charm and weirdness of the Unicorns, but executed with more control and more attention to detail. Thorburn's off-kilter vocals are still resident, but the instrumentation is more of its own melodic entity, and less of a rhythmic noise accompaniment. In a word, it seems to have vision that was lacking in the past.

Given this, we were glad to see that the band will be making up a cancelled April date at Bimbo's next Monday. We'll be there. Tickets are still available.

mp3: Islands - Creeper