Future Islands is a new wave band based in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The band is composed of Gerrit Welmers (keyboards and programming),
William Cashion (bass, acoustic and electric guitars),
Samuel T. Herring (lyrics and vocals) and Michael Lowry (percussion, since 2020). Future Islands' music style has been tagged as
synthpop, but the band has routinely rejected that classification, considering themselves as
post-wave,by combining the romanticism of
new wave with the power and drive of
post-punk. The band met and formed in Greenville, North Carolina, USA while studying art …
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