Future Islands: People Who Aren't There Anymore review - back to melancholy banger mode

(4AD)Some perfectly constructed pop offsets dark musings on a record elevated by Samuel T Herring's ever richer vocals Future Islands are best in yearning banger mode. Although their 2020 album, As Long As You Are, brought instant classic For Sure, it was often dismayingly downbeat - melancholy unrelieved by the consolation of rhythm. Luckily, People Who Aren't There Anymore is better at dragging its tears to the dancefloor. Here are grownup, weighty ruminations on devotion, sacrifice, separatio...