Puce King
I'll likely be listening to this record until I die. No matter how many times I hear it, new emotions always boil to the surface for me. A fantastic album worthy of a remaster. Keep sweet.
Favorite track: Swans (Life After Death) (Remaster).
brockcantrell
This album still feels fresh and new, even on it's 10th anniversary.
Favorite track: Where There's a Will, There's a Whalebone (Remaster).
Justin Leider
this album chronicles the experience of wavering between childhood and adulthood... it's fun and dark, it's cerebral and emotional, it's unpredictable and catchy, and it still feels painfully and pleasantly relevant
Favorite track: Don't Call Me Whitney, Bobby (Remaster).
Shane Bonnell
As mellow, chaotic and sweet now as when it came out, and only enhanced by the remaster.
Favorite track: Where There's a Will, There's a Whalebone (Remaster).
Amber Purcell
Ten years later, and this album still has one of my favorite love songs of all time on it in "Jogging Gorgeous Summer". It's great that this amazing album is getting its due reissue.
Favorite track: Jogging Gorgeous Summer (Remaster).
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Comes in a sharp digipak with booklet ft lyrics, essay, credits and photos
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10th Anniversary Edition Vinyl
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
2x 180 gram vinyl at 45rpm. The artwork has received a tasteful touch-up, with printed inner sleeve lyrics, archival photos never before released, and an in-depth essay about the album’s creation by Mr. Diamonds himself.
Includes unlimited streaming of Return to the Sea (10th Anniversary Remaster)
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
“Who knew how warm the islands would be...” Ten years on, Islands is celebrating the release of their seminal debut album Return to the Sea with a classy anniversary reissue. Remastered for vinyl and pressed to 2x 180 gram vinyl at 45rpm, it has never sounded better. The artwork has received a tasteful touch-up, with gatefold, inserts with archival photos never before released, and an in-depth essay about the album’s creation by Mr. Diamonds himself. The following excerpts are the first and last paragraphs from that essay:
“On December 31st, 2004, I flew down to Los Angeles from Campbell River, B.C. I was at a puzzling intersection: A few days earlier, my band, the Unicorns, had finally combusted onstage in Houston, Texas. I'd just turned twenty-three. I had thrown all of my possessions on the sidewalk a year prior and now had nowhere to live. I was adrift. My friend Adam Gollner convinced me to come down to LA, where he was writing and researching his first book. The idea was to clear my head and get some sun for two weeks. It ended up raining torrentially every day. After the rain cleared, I invited my former bandmate Jamie Thompson to join me. We spent the next three months in LA plotting our next move, knowing we wanted to continue playing music together after the dissolution of the Unicorns....
...For years, I maintained a distance to this record, and considered overhauling it entirely. After Jamie and I had assembled the band to perform the songs live in the fall of 2005, I wanted to re-record everything with them. When the 10th anniversary of the record’s release started rolling around in the spring of 2016, I strongly considered doing a reimagined remix, losing excess instrumentation and caking my vocals in a more professional gloss. For ages I bristled at the record’s flaws; my squeaky, earnest vocals, drums and guitars that sounded meek when I wanted them to sound heavy, precious lyrics, naive melodies. No, this record isn’t anywhere near perfect, and nor should anything earthly be. I’ve only started to realize that this record’s imperfections are exactly what cradles its meaning and curiosities, its heart and spirit. Here it is again. Back in my arms or under my wings, the waves licking our ankles, ready to head back out again. Don’t forget to lift the locked groove.”
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A stunning album that feels at once retro and throwback and also immediate and modern. Speaks to the moment it stemmed from and feeling vital years on. bandfan25
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