Future Islands share new single 'The Tower', taken from their upcoming album, People Who Aren’t There Anymore, out January 26 2024.
‘The Tower’ arrives alongside a video directed by Jonathan van Tulleken (Top Boy, Shogun). This marks the second project van Tulleken and the band’s vocalist/lyricist Samuel T. Herring have worked on together — the two collaborated on Apple TV’s The Changeling, whose first season aired in September.
On working with Herring onthe video for ‘The Tower’, van Tulleken says: “Anyone who’s seen Sam on stage shape shift with his whole body and voice from heart wrenchingly tender to fantastically ferocious knows that he is a truly, magnetic, performer…I loved working with someone who came to acting via this persona they had built in their music. To then get to collaborate on a music video with the band was a delight, especially one which explores that duality of light and dark literally and metaphorically. Finding that same captivating, haunting, performance but this time with the track as script.”
‘The Tower’ follows previously released singles ‘Deep In The Night’, ‘King of Sweden’ and ‘Peach’, which also feature on People Who Aren’t There Anymore.
Listen to ‘The Tower’ by Future Islands on the Everton FC Official Playlist on Spotify.
The seventh album from the band – Samuel T. Herring (vocals, lyrics), William Cashion (bass, guitars), Gerrit Welmers (keyboards, programming), and Michael Lowry (drums) – follows 2020’s As Long As You Are. People Who Aren’t There Anymore heralds a new chapter for Future Islands who, despite having formed nearly two decades ago, continue to challenge themselves and each other.
Where they’ve pursued ever-higher energy anthems in the past, they’ve turned inward this time, and unlocked a new level of ferocity, delivering some of their most inspiring and most heart-breaking tracks by doing the opposite: taking their time, making each breath, each syllable, each cymbal crash count. The result is a powerful, defining statement from a group of musicians that have made the best album of their career.
