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    Future Islands Live on KCRW – Before the Bridge

    [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrpRH6BrZa4[/youtube] To me, Future Islands play a very important kind of music – sad music that you can dance to. Like Joy Division and many bands before them, they dig…

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    By Rachel Reynolds • Nov 18, 2011 • 1 min read

    To me, Future Islands play a very important kind of music – sad music that you can dance to.

    Like Joy Division and many bands before them, they dig into deep emotional places, examining love and loss on top of music you can bounce along to, particularly the sweet synths of “Before the Bridge”, set against the growls of singer Samuel T. Herring.

    They even dropped in a new song, written in August, that has not yet been record called “Tomorrow”.

    Enjoy the session in our archives here.

    Future Islands Live on KCRW Set List

    The Great Fire

    Before the Bridge

    Balance

    Tomorrow

    Where I Found You

    Close to None

    Grease

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      Rachel Reynolds

      Producer, 'Morning Becomes Eclectic'

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