Montreal’s Islands are due to release Arm’s Way, the follow up to their lauded 2005 album Return To The Sea.
Preceding it is lead track The Arm, a grandiose opulent piece of music if ever there was one. Opening with a surf rock guitar riff, the song quickly bursts into overblown life with extravagant strings, bold organs and wildly stuttering drums. It’s awfully grown-up in its elements but they sit together like Skittled-up children in the front pew of a church. In its brief moments of clarity it’s like Hard Fi but more interested in mid-period Bowie than Level 42.
