#nick thorburn

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[riylcast]

Episode 616: Nick Thorburn (of Islands and the Unicorns)

This month marks 20 years since the Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?

The Unicorns' sophomore album is a singular triumph for a group that was clearly too beautiful to live. But it didn't take Nick Thorburn long to regroup after his seminal high school band imploded.

There have been countless musical projects along the way, but Islands stands the tallest as longest tenured, most brilliant and best among them.

The band returns this year with And That's Why Dolphins Lost Their Legs, the second album since Thornburn's self-imposed hiatus. It's bleak at times, but always a fantastic snapshot of a musical career ever charging ahead.

[simplesample]

OMG NEW ISLANDS SONG JUST DROPPED YEAAA

[orelpuppington]

'cause everyone i know

is too comfortable with their lives

do you wanna be a part of change?

[rgr-pop]

one of the things is i got to explain these:

[cartoon-skeleton]

speaking of nick thorburn I want to make it known that every single time I’ve visited home post-islands concert (which was apparently a life altering event) my lil brother brings him up in like 90% of all conversations he has with me

[outoflimbo]

alden penner and nick thorburn are both very good songwriters but in extremely different, kind of opposite ways. makes sense that the unicorns is so unique, then.

[lakesbian]

rose thorburn sometimes nick lutsko amv please please please uoure nothing. its perhaps unreasonable to say this when i dont know if she makes it out alive or not (probably does at severe cost to mr blake thorburn and perhaps many others who are not her) bc the song mentions Only Way Out's As A Carcass repeatedly. But like

comeon. you could do alternating blake and rose verses probably.

[gwynndolin]

it will never not be funny to me that nick thorburn just has access to these celebs for no reason

[whatoccurs]

HIM. god (sweating)

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vinyl-only bonus track "Feel A Way" from And That's Why Dolphins Lost Their Legs by Islands (2023)

via @ruffgem (thank you!)

[thisdastampdoesnotexist]

nick thorburn from the band Islands with the text "come" please

[simplesample]

AUG 25TH COME FASTER PLEASE

[miscopia]

OKGO + Nick Thorburn would probably be pretty cool

[rgr-pop]

been trying to understand ‘a sleep & a forgetting’ better (or, every islands album one by one, in advance of the forthcoming end of islands), and just now it made me cry finally