'FUTURE ISLANDS are a new-wave dance band from North Carolina, now residing in the fertile "music capital of awesome", Baltimore. Future Islands play a terse yet passionate music wrought from a stripped back palette. Gerrit Welmers' cartwheeling synthesizer melodies tumble across the austere wilderness of William Cashion's post-punk bass pulse, driven ever forward by Eric Murillo's ecstatic feel for rhythm. Perhaps the most striking aspect of the band's sound however, takes the form of Sam Herring's guttural vocal, delivered as Glen Danzig if he ever found himself in a Shakespearean tragedy. At times on its knees at others belted out like it's the end of the world, Herring's vocal lends a raw emotional warmth to the group's resolute synth-punk bounce. New album 'Wave Like Home 'is out now on Upset The Rhythm. ' -- Upset The Rhythm

They are often associated with Baltimore's Wham City art collective, which includes Dan Deacon amongst others.

> www.futureislands.com
> www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/futureislands.shtml
> www.myspace.com/futureislands

8-bit lofi chip-punk pop on Gameboys, Amigas, Commodore 64s and 80s keyboards. Previously seen at Bad Timing supporting Max Tundra, Duracell and Gay Against You. Recent activities include a 3" CDR 'With Love From Grandma' on German label Retinascan and playing at the Blip Festival of legacy game and home computer hardware music and video made in Brooklyn.

'Electronic glitch pop ... intermingled with gabba interludes, and covers of Prince and Kenny Loggins. Live performances noted for face painting and readings from the Razzle letters page.' Drowned in Sound

> www.myspace.com/jellicadrdru
> www.kittenrock.co.uk

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