Cover of Island

Island

Owen Pallett

22 May 2020

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Tracklist 15 tracks, 59:48
  1. 1---> (i)3:05
  2. 2Transformer3:54
  3. 3Paragon of Order5:56
  4. 4---> (ii)0:24
  5. 5The Sound of The Engines3:54
  6. 6Perseverance of the Saints3:54
  7. 7Polar Vortex2:57
  8. 8---> (iii)0:53
  9. 9A Bloody Morning5:53
  10. 10Fire-Mare4:19
  11. 11Lewis Gets Fucked Into Space4:56
  12. 12---> (iv)3:38
  13. 13In Darkness6:27
  14. 14Paragon of Order (version)5:03
  15. 15Fire-Mare (version)4:35

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Rated 8/10

The first track is so minimal, with such long spaces of silence, that I'm sure more than one person was like "what is this? Is the file broken?" I like him starting an album that way, though; starting with a track that sounds like it'd be an interlude somewhere in the middle. Quite a confessional album, talking about such intensely personal things as his sleep patterns, his specific anxieties, his musings on gender roles both in mythology and in the modern world. Basically, a very 21st-century album. The soothing beauty of the violin- and synth-driven music belies the confused, unsettling lyrics.