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Luisterpaal.

A Sleep & a Forgetting is a small album, both by design and in its impact; there are no grand statements made, musical or otherwise, and since this is, really, 37 minutes of no-frills, room-temperature indie pop proper, it's incredibly easy to let this record get lost in the breeze. This isn't a bad thing, though-- in fact, it's something of a triumph for Thorburn, to match his most emotionally devastating material yet with music that's so close-sounding and unassumingly, unabashedly pretty. There's humanity in these songs, a quality that was muddled in the noise of Arm's Way and Return to the Sea, and sidelined during Human Highway and Mister Heavenly's genre excursions (however pleasurable they might have been). When Jaime Thompson left Islands for the first time, Thorburn memorably and amicably proclaimed, "Islands are forever." Maybe a repurposed album title from his old band would work better this time around: Islands are people too.


Canada
Pop / Rock
Label: Anti

1. In a Dream It Seemed Real 
2. This Is Not a Song 
3. Never Go Solo 
4. No Crying 
5. Hallways 
6. Can't Feel My Face 
7. Lonely Love 
8. Oh Maria 
9. Cold Again 
10. Don't I Love You? 
11. Same Thing