Seraphina Lotkhamnga on February 23rd, 2012

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Although many of us still miss the Unicorns, supporting Nicholas Thorburn in Islands isn’t such a bad thing. The Montreal-based band recently released “A Sleep & A Forgetting,” and the follow-up to 2009’s highly regarded “Vapors” has been worth the wait. Thorburn’s modern pop has always been a bit adventurous, but his new break-up record finds him with his most focused and irresistible melodies yet. That said, Islands’ new video for “Hallways” seems to oddly have a dark humor to it. Co-directed by Lex Halaby and puppeteer Toben Seymour and drawing on Thorburn’s inspiration from Max Fleischer cartoons of the 1930s, the skeleton band in stop-motion animation strongly echos a scene from a Tim Burton film. The ending might be more creepy than funny, though.

||| Live: Islands play March 14 at Bootleg Theater.