Future Islands have lined up ‘From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth’, a 20-year rarities collection
Double single 'Sail' / 'Find Love' is available now alongside the announcement.
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Double single 'Sail' / 'Find Love' is available now alongside the announcement.
Get more Dork
Sessions · Playlists · Behind the scenes
To celebrate their twentieth anniversary, Future Islands have revealed plans for a special album gathering together rarities, alternate hits, and deep cuts from across their career. Titled 'From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth', the record arrives on 22nd May through 4AD, accompanied today by a double single pairing 'Sail' with 'Find Love'.
Spanning twenty tracks across a double LP - one song for each year the band have been together - the collection draws from split 7" singles, Japanese bonus tracks, tour-exclusive VIP releases, and one previously unreleased demo called 'Rager'. Around half of the material has never been available on streaming services, with recordings dating back as far as 2009 and running through to 2025.
Bassist William Cashion originally assembled the songs into a playlist and selected the album's name. "I've always loved the imagery of that lyric," he says. "The hole in the floor is the everyday, but the fountain is the magic that happens when the life you dreamed about actually becomes the one you're living. It's the dream and the reality existing in the same room."
Cashion also speaks to what the project represents for the group more broadly: "This is for everyone who has carried these songs with them, from the first house parties to the rooms we're playing today."
Available on CD, digital, and Blue+Apricot coloured double vinyl, the release will be accompanied by a run of live dates across North Carolina and Baltimore. Further details on those shows are expected soon.
