Progress Report: Nick Thorburn

NAME: Nick Thorburn (Islands, Human Highway) PROGRESS REPORT: Recording Islands' third LP at Stratosphere Studio in New York City; recording a solo LP, I Am An Attic at home; releasing a comic book, This Is Howie Doo, through Bodega Distribution. Nick Thorburn fits the same overachieving Canadian trope that we've bestowed on Spencer Krug and Owen Pallet. But Thorburn's a more self-conscious musician, one who satisfies his self-diagnosed ADD by feeding new ideas, playing with perceptions and expe...

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