New music: Future Islands – Balance

Cerebral and sunny, this is a thinking person's summer anthemWhen Baltimore trio Future Islands started working on their third album, On the Water, their influences ranged from Fleetwood Mac and Cocteau Twins to a book about Brian Eno's Another Green World. This mix of the melodic and the cerebral sums up Balance, the album's second single, which dances around an undulating bass line, a gorgeously clipped beat and Samuel T Herring's slightly coarse vocals to create a summer anthem at the exact m...

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