Future Islands are a Baltimore-based synth-pop band that appear to revel in opposites: witness vocalist Sam Herring’s soaked-in-gin wails jostling with happy, bleeping synths. Or the over-the-top, psychedelic videos, where real-life slams into an imaginary dreamworld. In every beautiful moment, things are streaked with danger; during every quiet period there’s a frenzy waiting around the corner. And this juxtaposition between light and dark is what makes Future Islands stand out from amongst their contemporaries – because in so many ways this formula shouldn’t work, but it does.
