blog post LISTEN to Islands' A Sleep & A Forgetting [Album of the Week]

"I started writing it on Valentine’s Day and its coming out on Valentine’s Day.”

— Nick Thorburn

Singer-songwriter Nick Thorburn says Islands’ newest album, A Sleep & A Forgetting, is more personal than anything he’s ever created.

The band’s fourth studio album is to be released Feb. 14, but you can hear all of it now at CBC Music.

Frontman Thorburn says he began work on the songs when a relationship ended and he left his New York City home for Los Angeles.

“There was a piano where I was staying, and that’s where I wrote these songs,” he said. “This record deals with loss, with memory and forgetting and with dreaming. I started writing it on Valentine’s Day and it’s coming out on.”

A Sleep & A Forgetting streams right here on CBC Radio 3 for one week, which is plenty of time to take it for a test drive. But if you would prefer your album to come with a signed and personalized Valentine’s Day card, hand-drawn by Thorburn, and a Total Recall-themed shirt, then you have until the end of today, so act now.

Tune in to Appetite for Distraction at 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday to hear Lisa Christiansen Valentine’s Day chat with Nick Thorburn about the album.

To hear the full album, Radio 3 has it streaming online for an entire week. You can listen to the 11-song collection and check out the track list.


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Check out the 11-song track list.