Islands

Islands

"Hallways" (video)

PUBLISHED Feb 23, 2012

Islands main man Nick Thorburn's Mister Heavenly project may lay claim to the "doom-wop" tag, but his full-time gig's new ghoulish video fo...

Islands' Nick Thorburn Opens Up About Plans for "Extremely Dark" Follow-Up to 'A Sleep & A Forgetting'

PUBLISHED Feb 21, 2012

Nick Thorburn has long been known for his band-hopping ways, and the Islands leader has been involved in an array of acts over the years, i...

Islands

A Sleep & a Forgetting

PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2012

"I could never hide/All the sadness inside," Islands frontman Nick Thorburn sings on shuffling opener "In a Dream (It Seemed Real)." This m...

Islands

A Sleep & a Forgetting

PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2012

No matter how much we want them to be, Islands are not the Unicorns. Since Nick Thorburn and Jamie Thompson struck out on their own, the gr...

Islands

Get Personal

PUBLISHED Feb 14, 2012

Nick Thorburn has long had a morbid streak. As the songwriter behind Islands (and having been a key contributor to an array of projects inc...

Islands

'A Sleep & A Forgetting' (album stream)

PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2012

It's easy to think of Nick Thorburn (aka Nick Diamonds) as a bit of an eccentric, as most of his past work with the Unicorns and Islands ha...

Listen to Islands' 'A Sleep & A Forgetting' Here on Exclaim.ca

PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2012

In the years since Islands released Vapours in 2009, frontman Nick Thorburn has put a solo album, plus a record with Mister Heavenly. Now,...

Islands

"Hallways"

PUBLISHED Jan 17, 2012

Our first taste of Islands' piano-driven new album, A Sleep & A Forgetting, was the sombre breakup ballad "This Is Not a Song". For the lat...