Nick Thorburn recently put out the new album Ski Mask with his group Islands, and now he’s got another bit of new music. “Hawaii” is a song that Thorburn wrote and recorded on Friday, he notes on its SoundCloud page. It’s a stripped down acoustic track, but Thorburn’s voice fills it in nicely. Li...

Canadian art-poppers Islands’ video for “Wave Forms,” the first single from their new album Ski Mask, stars Cory Zacharia, the subject of the 2008 documentary Kid Icarus. I don’t know Zacharia’s whole story, so I can’t tell if he’s playing a character or being himself in the v...

Islands, the longstanding indie-pop enterprise fronted by ex-Unicorns member Nick Diamonds, just released a new album called Ski Mask, which Thorburn touts as “like a summation of Islands, everything we’ve ever done distilled into one record.” Now that album has its own mockumentary featuring comedians Michael Cera,...

Nick Thorburn is probably still better-known for Unicorns than for anything else, but he’s now cranked out five albums in seven years with his art-pop band Islands, so maybe we should reorient our thinking there. Islands’ new album Ski Mask comes out this week, and Thorburn says that the LP is “like a summation of [...

Islands, the Canadian art-poppers led by former Unicorn Nick Thorburn, are preparing to unleash their new album Ski Mask upon the world. The first single they shared was the lush but twitchy “Wave Forms,” and now they’ve got another one called “Becoming The Gunship,” a title that Thorburn claims ...