Blog: LocalCut

To say that Islands Nick Thorburn (or Nick Diamonds, if you're going with the whole persona thing) is a musical chameleon is an understatement. After leading spazz-pop trio the Unicorns on a crazy two year run, producing one of my favorite albums of the decade, 2003's Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone? , Thorburn shut down the project. First there was the hip-hop side project, Th' Corn Gangg, and then Islands—a band that saw Thorburn aided by Unicorns drummer Jamie Thompson, taking the band's sound and adding does of calypso music and Graceland boogie. After [...]