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'Hallways'- Islands Handclaps? Check. Parlor piano? Check. Harmonies? Check. Bouncy, overly catchy rhythm? Check. Cymbal crashes? Check. There's nothing to dislike here. ( website ) 'Hymn #76'- Joe Pug There's not a more underrated songwriter today than Joe Pug. This song is a masterpiece. ( website ) [...]

Watch 'Hallways' below. Catch Islands on their North American tour. Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: Islands - This Is Not A Song

I interviewed Nick Thorburn of Islands for Exclaim! , and also reviewed the band's latest album, A Sleep & a Forgetting . Below is a music video for the single "This Is Not a Song," which is a wonderfully simple piano-based soul ballad that's probably my favourite track on the album.

I interviewed Nick Thorburn of Islands for Exclaim! , and also reviewed the band's latest album, A Sleep & a Forgetting . Below is a music video for the single "This Is Not a Song," which is a wonderfully simple piano-based soul ballad that's probably my favourite track on the album.

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Lex Halaby ha diretto il video di Hallways , dal nuovo album degli Islands uscito questo mese, A Sleep & A Forgetting .

This week, we ran into a bit of a problem as it pertains to this list: For some reason, YouTube embed aren't rendering when we put them in. We're not sure why that is, but we're looking to fix it. (And if any readers know anyone at YouTube or Google who could help us out, please do!) In the meantime, we found Vimeo embeds for four of these five videos and posted a link to the other. Click below for this week's list. Read More...

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...αυτοί δεν τραγουδάγανε κάποτε για τα κόκκαλα της συχωρεμενης της  wITNEY hoUSTON; Filed under: pop Tagged: animation , islands , music , video

Tweet Watch the new video for Islands ' song "Hallways" below, taken from the album "A Sleep And A Forgetting". Connect with Islands - Facebook | Twitter | Last.fm

“Hallways” es el primer adelanto de lo nuevo de Islands , una banda que lanzó su último disco hace ya muchos años, en 2009, y que ahora vuelve con A Sleep & A Forgetting . No contentos con presentarnos el tema, también nos dan muestran un curioso vídeo en el que se puede ver a Islands bailando con esqueletos. Eso es, en “Hallways” podemos ver al líder de la banda, Nick Thornburn, al frente de un grupo de músicos esqueletos que se acompañan con los instrumentos. El álbum esta ya [...]

Filed under: News , Video YouTube Artists (or their management) apparently decided that Thursday, Feb. 22, 2012 was the best day to release their music videos. We got great new clips from the Shins , Screaming Females , Islands , Firehorse and Lazerbeak (whose hip-hop group Doomtree stopped by last week for an Interface taping). Check them all out below, plus the sorta-NSFW video for Polica 's 'Amongster,' [...]

Although many of us still the Unicorns, supporting Nicholas Thorburn in Islands isn't such a bad thing. The Montreal-based band recently released "A Sleep & A Forgetting," and the follow-up to 20092s highly regarded "Vapors" has been worth the wait. Thorburn's modern pop has always been a bit adventurous, but his new break-up record finds him with his  most focused and irresistible melodies yet. That said, Islands' new video for "Hallways" seems to oddly have a dark humor to it. Co-directed by Lex Halaby and puppeteer Toben Seymour and drawing on Thorburn's inspiration from Max Fleischer cartoons of [...]

In the video for Islands ' upbeat, piano-driven track " Hallways ," frontman Nick Thorburn finds himself as the lead singer for a group of marionette claymatian skeletons, all of whom have an incredible talent for playing instruments. As the song continues, Thorburn finds himself getting more and more into the bizarre situation, eventually turning into, well, watch the video and find out for yourself. Islands' latest LP A Sleep & A Forgetting is available now via ANTI-.

I'm digging this new Islands record, A Sleep & A Forgetting . "Hallways" isn't my favorite track, but the video has dancing skeleton puppets.

Click here to view the embedded video. Check out the video for Islands' new single, "Hallways" from their new album 'A Sleep & A Forgetting,' which out now. The video, Directed by Lex Halaby & Toben Seymour features frontman Nick Thorburn as he leads a band of puppet skeletons, yeah its that awesome. Buy A Sleep & A Forgetting

Islands released their new album A Sleep & A Forgetting ( review ) a couple of weeks ago. This week we get a video from the record. Check out the bone-rattling "Hallways" here: Islands play The Music Gallery in Toronto on February 28th.

ONE WORD FOR THIS: Boneriffic! —Daiana Feuer

Have the ISLANDS always sounded like the WEEZER ? If that don't appeal to you, give the video for HALLWAYS a shot, on mute, just for the awesome skeleton puppet effects.

Watch 'Hallways' below. Catch Islands on their North American tour. Click here to view the embedded video. MP3: Islands - This Is Not A Song