Future Islands From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth Vinyl LP Blue/Apricot Colour Due Out 22/05/26

Please note this is a pre-order item due for release 22nd May, 2026

Future Islands - From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth

Blue/Apricot Colour

Tracklist:

1. The Ink Well
2. Pinnochio
3. Happiness of Being Twice
4. In the Fall
5. Awake and Dreaming
6. Virgo Distracts
7. Find Love
8. Cotton Flower
9. The Fountain
10. Tomorrow
11. One Day
12. The Chase
13. Calliope
14. Six Weeks
15. Haunted By You
16. Sail
17. As Long As You Are
18. Days
19. Rager
20. Glimpse

As the title suggests, this double-LP traces the group’s journey from humble origins toward ever-widening horizons. Twenty songs for twenty years, four members of the band, four sides of vinyl. Future Islands have always been more than a viral moment; their career contains extraordinary depth and nuance, often overshadowed by louder peaks. These songs reveal a band comfortable with subtlety, grace, and emotional endurance - and they have never sounded more eternal.

The songs were first gathered into a playlist by bass lynchpin William Cashion, who also chose the title - “I’ve always loved the imagery of that lyric,” he makes clear, “the hole in the floor is the everyday, but the fountain is the magic that happens when the life you dreamed about actually becomes the one you’re living. It’s the dream and the reality existing in the same room.” A well-known Tennessee Williams quote talks of this kind of duration - “time is the longest distance between two places.” It is time that really separates the floor from the fountain.