Future Islands have shared details on their new album People Who Aren’t There Anymore, which is set to arrive on January 26 via 4AD. The seventh album from the band follows 2020’s As Long As You Are, and will feature the single “Deep in the Night” released back in August.
The album cycle kicks off with the project’s second single “The Tower,” which arrives alongside a music video directed by Jonathan van Tulleken. The track begins with warm keyboard chords and pulsing electronic drum pads. Frontman Samuel T. Herring’s triumphant voice looms as large as ever, singing of a tower in the ocean that bores through him.
“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,” reflected van Tulleken on the accompanying visual, before noting Herring’s recent appearance on the Apple TV series The Changeling. “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.”
Check out the visual for the synth-pop opus below, and pre-order People Who Aren’t There Anymore here.
