A Sleep & a Forgetting | ||||
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Studio album by Islands | ||||
Released | February 14, 2012 | |||
Genre | Indie rock | |||
Length | 47:34 | |||
Label | ANTI- | |||
Islands chronology | ||||
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Professional ratings | |
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Aggregate scores | |
Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 69/100 |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | |
Pitchfork Media | (7.9/10) |
Prefix Magazine | |
Sputnikmusic | |
Paste |
A Sleep & a Forgetting is the fourth studio album by indie rock band Islands. It was released on February 14, 2012 on ANTI-.
Nicholas Thorburn has called it his "strongest most cohesive record", a record that "deals with loss, with memory and forgetting and with dreaming."
At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 69% based on 15 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".