ISLAND - Feels Like Air (2018)

"They are very very special, this band" - Huw Stephens BBC Radio 1
"One of the most exciting bands at the moment." - Wonderland

London four-piece ISLAND are an Alternative guitar band whose history is characterised by old friendships, close bonds, and an almost telepathic mutual understanding. Forming as teenagers when frontman Rollo Doherty’s acoustic bedroom project was treated to the boisterous backing of guitarist Jack Raeder, bassist James Wolfe and drummer Toby Richards in a dingy windowless practice room where they began to painstakingly shape a sound which combined darkly twisting instrumental with a sweetly melodic song-writing nous that belied their age.

Now signed to New York tastemaker label Frenchkiss Records, the band are gearing up to release their hotly anticipated debut album, due April 6th 2018 and entitled ‘Feels Like Air’.

In keeping to their DIY approach to making music, ‘Feels Like Air’ was written and produced entirely by the band and includes all
new music. Drawing on influences from their shared love of artists like Fleetwood Mac, Kings of Leon, War On Drugs and Grizzly Bear,
their debut offering, with its hook-filled anthemic choruses and inventive drumming, is a body of work two years in the making.

The eleven-track album progresses through a range of emotions, experimenting with the down-tempo and cinematic and includes their singles 'Try', 'The Day I Die', 'Ride' and 'Horizon'.

The band’s live show is fearsomely tight and effervescently energetic through years of playing together week in, week out since their youth. Be sure to catch ISLAND touring Europe and North America in 2018.