Future Islands is an American synth-pop band based in Baltimore, Maryland, comprising Gerrit Welmers, William Cashion, Samuel T Herring, and Michael Lowry .
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15 Facts About Future Islands
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Future Islands came to prominence in 2014 with their fourth album Singles released by 4AD.
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Future Islands was formed in early 2006 to keep that commitment, with an original line-up consisting of Cashion, Herring, Welmers and Erick Murillo—bassist for The Kickass —who played an electronic drum kit.
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In July 2007, Future Islands recorded their debut album Wave Like Home with Chester Endersby Gwazda at Backdoor Skateshop in Greenville.
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In February 2010, Future Islands released through the NYC art collective Free Danger the EP The Post Office Chapel Wave with remixes by Pictureplane, Javelin, Jones and Moss Of Aura, and collaborations with No Age and Victoria Legrand from Beach House.
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In 2016, Future Islands took a break from touring and started writing their fifth album in January, in the small beach town of Avon, in the Outer Banks, North Carolina.
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Future Islands recorded The Far Field in November 2016 at the Sunset Sound Recorders studio in Los Angeles, California, with producer John Congleton.
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Future Islands appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert on 15 February, 2022, performing 'King of Sweden'.
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In Future Islands writing process, Gerrit Welmers and William Cashion develop the music which Sam Herring responds to with the lyrics.
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Future Islands co-directed with William Cashion the video of "Dream of You and Me" and is the creator of the large canvas seen in the background of the interior scenes of the video "Ran".
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Future Islands handled most of the typography on the album as well.
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Future Islands have opened for Morrissey, Grace Jones, Phantogram, Titus Andronicus and Okkervil River.
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Future Islands teamed up with producer Madlib for a rap project named Trouble knows Me, they released an EP in 2015.
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