Pitchfork

Photo by Kathryn Yu

"The Arm", a new song expected to be on Islands' forthcoming album Arm's Way, up today on the band's MySpace page, is a big and colorful slice of baroque pop, sorta ELO-like, with swooping strings, a rushing swell of sound on the chorus turnaround, and a suite-like structure that hints at Broadway and/or prog. On the first few listens, the thin melody doesn't seem quite up to the Technicolor production, but the sonic ambition is promising.

Stream:> Islands: "The Arm"
[from Arm's Way; due 05/20/08 on Anti-]