Future People

Forced to delay the tour supporting 2020's As Long as You Are due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Future Islands worked on new material and began releasing singles in 2021, starting with the brisk yet tender "Peach." The defiant "King of Sweden" and swaying slow jam "Deep in the Night" followed, with additional tracks and covers leading up to the early-2024 release of the band's seventh album, bearing the hard-hitting title People Who Aren't There Anymore. Co-produced by Steve Wright, who mixed the group's previous album, and mixed by Wright and Chris Coady, producer of the 2014 breakthrough Singles, the album includes all of the group's original songs from "Peach" onward, delivering the sort of passionate yet introspective performances that have long been Future Islands' trademark. Like so many of the band's records, People Who Aren't There Anymore is another refinement rather than a reinvention or bold step forward.