Future Islands have introduced their new album, Folks Who Aren’t There Anymore. It’s coming January 26 by way of 4AD. It options a lot of latest singles, together with “Deep within the Evening,” “King of Sweden,” and “Peach.” As we speak, they’re again with “The Tower,” which has a brand new video directed by Jonathan van Tulleken, who labored with the band’s Samuel T. Herring on the Apple TV sequence The Changeling. Watch the video beneath.
“Anybody who’s seen Sam on stage form shift along with his entire physique and voice from coronary heart wrenchingly tender to fantastically ferocious is aware of that he’s a really, magnetic, performer,” van Tulleken mentioned in an announcement. “This was no small cause why he was forged for a job in The Changeling the place he performs a posh character who seems to be one factor while truly one other. It was a job that will be no simple job for even probably the most seasoned actor however Sam, making use of all his stage craft, charisma, smarts and pure empathy, completely nailed it producing a riveting efficiency. I cherished working with somebody who got here to appearing by way of this persona they’d constructed of their music.”
“Anybody who’s seen Sam on stage form shift along with his entire physique and voice from coronary heart wrenchingly tender to fantastically ferocious is aware of that he’s a really, magnetic, performer,” van Tulleken mentioned in an announcement. “This was no small cause why he was forged for a job in The Changeling the place he performs a posh character who seems to be one factor while truly one other. It was a job that will be no simple job for even probably the most seasoned actor however Sam, making use of all his stage craft, charisma, smarts and pure empathy, completely nailed it producing a riveting efficiency. I cherished working with somebody who got here to appearing by way of this persona they’d constructed of their music. To then get to collaborate on a music video with the band was a delight particularly one which explores that duality of sunshine and darkish actually and metaphorically. Discovering that very same charming, haunting, efficiency however this time with the monitor as script.”
Folks Who Aren’t There Anymore follows Future Islands’ 2020 studio LP, As Lengthy as You Are. Steve Wright co-produced the brand new album with the band, and he blended it with Chris Coady, who produced Future Islands’ landmark 2014 album, Singles.
