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Islands
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The Sound of Settling
Islands’ Sophomore Album, Arm’s Way
In Nick Thorburn’s first band, the Unicorns, his songwriting was pulled by twin obsessions: the dream of pop-star immortality and the promise of real, personal death (with a little room for comedy and romance in between). Thorburn’s effective debut—following a scarcely circulated, self-released, 500-copy album called Unicorns Are People Too—was the Unicorns’ Who Will Cut […]