#Islands Announce New Album Islomania, Share Video for New Song: Watch

Islands are back with their first new album in five years. It’s called Islomania and it’s out June 11 via their new label home Royal Mountain Records. The first single from the album is called “(We Like To) Do It With the Lights On,” and it arrives with a new video directed by Tim Nackashi. Watch below.

Nick Thorburn says he quietly decided to end Islands and retire from music in 2016 without making an official public announcement. “This seemed like a perfect time to put a cap on things and close out the circle,” he said in a statement. But after the decision was made, he began writing songs with the idea that he was writing for other musicians. It ultimately resulted in a new Islands album.

“I came up with the song title as a tossed-off joke,” Thorburn said of the new single. “It seemed fitting with the kind of playful innuendo that seems to do well in the pop sphere. Once I started to flesh it out after booting up the band again, I realized it was mine, and for Islands only. I started it with the groove first, and built the melody off the top. This is like most of the songs on this record, which is new for me.”

Islomania:

01 Islomania
02 (We Like To) Do It With the Lights On
03 Carpenter
04 Closed Captioning
05 Set The Fairlight
06 A Passionate Age
07 Natural Law Party
08 Never Let You Down
09 Marble
10 Gore