People Who Aren’t There Anymore could it be the materialization of the concept of existential deliverance? The latest album – which will be addictive, you have been warned – from this group from Baltimore, Future Islands, appears to be this “light at the end of the tunnel”. During a dozen songs that literally grip the guts, Samuel T. Herring, Gerrit Welmers, William Cashion and Michael Lowry share with their listeners a beautiful dose of hope and joy to relieve the breakup, the loss. The melodies, airy and grandiose, dominated by the synths of Gerrit Welmers, undoubtedly have a lot to do with this almost euphoric sensation, while the lyrics and the raw voice of Samuel T. Herring anchor us in the present moment, in the alive, like a wake-up call. If the whole is impeccable, really, we delight, among other things, in The Tower for his contagious energy and heartbreaking Corner of My Eye And The Garden Wheel.
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