This is a picture of Islands from the concert I went to tonight. What I’m going to say now on my blog is sure to spur silent mockery from my fellow concert-attending friends tonight—but what is a blog if not the last refuge of truth? Before attending the show tonight, I knew Islands as a largely silly arrangement of musicians, who sounds something like this: “ooooooo! Volcano!” But now, they may be my new favorite band.
— at least, until I give Fanfarlow a spin tomorrow. The head honcho at Hi Rise called them a combination between Arcade Fire, Beirut, and Okkervil River, which seems too gorgeous to be possible in the physical universe.
