Blog: A.M. 180

speeding things up here... Islands - "Tender Torture" "Tender Torture" has this whole wish-fulfillment/denial thing going on. The melody is written in sections, any of which could be great songs on their own, and the band's strategy is to run with a particular riff or chord progression until you desperately want to hear it again, and then of course shift into something else, which ends up being even better. Thorburn's writing has never been more refined, or his peculiar style as perfectly envisioned, as [...]