It’s been little over a year since the absolutely brilliant Future Islands made their landmark break on David Letterman, in that hugely powerful performance. Samuel T Herring: creative goals, tight black shirt goals, ability-to-transform-one’s-voice-into-a-roaring-bellow, undoing-an-audience-in-the-process goals.
Record Store Day was held across the globe yesterday: a celebration of the beauty in tactile music, and an encouragement for consumers to support artists and local music businesses by spending the same amount of money on some vinyl as you might on your—admittedly, exquisite—brunching efforts of that morning.
To mark the occasion, Future Islands recorded a brand new single, ‘The Chase’, live in one take at the iconic Abbey Road studios in London, and also cut a single, precious vinyl – which was sold via a charity raffle at Seismic Records in Warwickshire. While neither you nor I will ever get our hands on the physical thing—unless hopping on ebay and purging life savings is a viable option—’The Chase’ did premiere on BBC radio yesterday.
Before the premiere, Future Islands gave an interview over the unique release, with front man Herring saying, “After three and a half fours of preparation, it took three minutes to make the record, which I think was really amazing in the end.”
You can listen to the delightful morsel over here, at the 2 hour 19 minute mark, or below – before it disappears from the ‘tube.
Lead image by Mark Metcalfe via Getty.
