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FUTURE ISLANDS

People Who Aren’t There Anymore 4AD

7/10

IF Future Islands ever felt moved to remember that “all things come to those who wait”, they must also have wondered the heck when. For this Baltimore quartet (initially a trio), it was in May 2014. Over the preceding eight years, they’d racked up many hundreds of shows and three albums before an appearance on blasted them into wider public awareness overnight, thanks to singer Samuel T Herring’s famously unbounded performance of “Seasons (Waiting On You)”.

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