To-Do List: Future Islands @ El Rio

We’ve been hearing a lot of great things about this band lately, and are pretty darn excited to have them playing here in San Francisco. Future Islands is a Baltimore three-piece band that play an emotionally intense and visceral style of, for lack of a better term, synth-pop. But you see, it’s not synth-pop; there are lots of synths and you can sing along with the low-register howl of Samuel T. Herring’s words, but the usual buoyancy that accompanies the average “synth-pop” group is no where to be found. Instead, Future Islands deliver cryptic lyrics atop barren electronics that sound pilfered from a lost Factory Records album.

We don’t have a flier for the band’s show Monday, May 24 at El Rio, but head to the venue’s website for the details. In the meantime, check out the single from Future Islands’ latest album, In Evening Air, below.

Listen:
“Tin Man”

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