Newislands Out Of Time (youWILLBEfollowing)
4/5
By: Tom Hocknell
As though in pre-emptive retort to Hurts (the imminently-crowned kings of synth-pop), Newislands present a debut single that has more than simple shades of the Killers - it even carries a ‘When We Were Young’ motif. It’s what the Killers would sound like if they came from Northampton and if their guitarist didn’t constantly campaign for his own involvement. ‘Out Of Time’ therefore comes across as Killers without guitars, i.e. Brandon Flowers solo, and it unfolds with a subdued beauty and (unlike most films these days), finishes too soon.
So confident are its gracefully anthemic verses that, with the band out of the room for the middle eight, it indulges in swirling electronica reminiscent of Erasure’s 1995 ambient-influenced album. Once the band wrestle back the mic, singer David Jones continues his desperate plea to a lover presumably already hacked off with this year’s genre-du-jour – boys and machines – on this, a fine debut single.
Artists in this article: Newislands
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